Generation of ’98: Literary Response to Spain’s Crisis
Generation of 98 was a group of youths who had taken a stand, not only literary, before the Spanish problem: poverty, regionalism, inadequate education, social injustice, the lyrical highlights etc.Respecto Unamuno, Valle Inclan, Machado.
Respecto to The novel highlights Baroja, Unamuno, Azorin and Valle.Se structured around a single character.
It focuses on the mentality of the protagonist. Incidents also replaced by dialogue. As for poetry, makes a contrast to the modernist ideal of beauty, has concern about the human (mainly Unamuno and Machado). In poetry expresses a different and deeper reality of people.
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Baroja
Novelist is the novelist most of all, wrote only novels. Pick up some convection narratives of the previous generation, in some novels could pass for a realistic or naturalistic author. InsNo Baroja’s novel should not have any rules to write novels, because he thinks the world is a stream of events without any order or logic. Schopenhauer learned that the nature of life is suffering and this suffering increases the greater the intellectual conscience. Baroja Some characters have an ideal that is based on an indifference toward life and reality, which leaves no be affected by anything. Others seek the ideal of super man. An example is the novel of Caesar or nothing. The character model is Andres Hurtado in the tree of science. Novel feature: most of his novels follow the model of Bildungsroman in the novels of growth in which the main character grows forming contact with reality. The action of the characters is usually meaningless. Many of the protagonists of his novels are remarkable egos Baroja: Andrew Howard and Cesar Moncada. The protagonists through experience, dialogue and conversation presented the learning process of life. Illustrates the ideal style for brevity, clarity and accuracy. The accuracy and clarity. And the language as a vehicle of thought.
2.Unamuno, his ideas about the novel: he believed that there were two ways of doing novel oviparous writers who create novels such as eggs, and writers who do the deed viviparous within themselves, and grow from himself. A Nivola is a novel that has no previous approach, to what comes out (Fog). The features are: Waiver of any prior preparation, eliminates the descriptions and presents the main character as an agonist, that is fighting for its existence. Elevate the dialogue to a position of importance in the narrative.
3.Azorín, his novels are novels in which nothing happens, are static. The most important issue is time, which is obsessed. Has the idea of eternal return, that is all that we live in our life repeats itself. It is a novel construction and narrative structure in their works, all are descriptions of the environments that influence the characters. They abandon the talks and setting the smallest detail of life. Beauties of the vulgar (which seems insignificant). The style is based on story lines minimum, the description of the sensations, the use of dialogue and minimal accumulation of details.
4.Valle Inclan, worry so much about the musicality of poetic language as the national regeneration. Crtiicó society of his time and extolled the merits of a distant past. As a novelist, wrote the sonatas that are four, and each refers to a station, a landscape and an age and life. The Spring sonata: the players get upset that a young girl going to take the veil, the summer sonata: for having an affair with the girl Chole, autumn sonata, seduces one of her former lovers sick with tuberculosis, the sonata winter, loses arm in Navarre Charles VII. His artistic vision of life and the musicality of the prose contributed to the lexicon of the work. It also publishes carlita war: first stage as a novelist who sets the action in Galicia and idealizes the gentry of the region. Carlist War is a trilogy consisting of the crusaders for the causeThe glow of the fire, and Gyrs old. Another book is Tirano flags, the action is set in an imaginary country. The main issue is the degradation of man by the effect of the tyranny of dictator. The Iberian circle included the restoration of the Bourbons and the war in Cuba. As a playwright, Luces de bohemia: recounts the night walk with a blind poet and his friend Don Latin, for different stages in Madrid where conditions are different characters. The style of the valley: the element that gives unity to the work is the use of language. Linguis multitude of resources used and blend a very personal literary language, which takes into account the metaphor callejaera Madrid with jargon and neologisms (the magic lamp).
5.Machado, his first book of poems, solitudes abdscribe Spanish modernist movement along with galleries and other poems. The tone of the work is reflective and melancholy. It is an introspective poetry bellaeza emotional evocations and happiness. The sFeatured YMBOLS are water, afternoon, nori, gardens, roads … The book is representative across Castilla: scenery, people, history of Castile. Expresses deep patriotic concern. The poems in this book are evocations of the real landscape. The descriptions become meditations, concluding in Castilian past counterclaims. In this book includes Alvargonzalez land, where returns to traditional Spanish meters. The central issue affects the conflict between brothers and countrymen. Released new songs: a brief and varied book whose poems are inspired by popular songs. His poems were utlimos war poems, including an elegy for Lorca, a sad poem about the suffering of a child during the war. The concept of Machado’s poetry: “Poetry is essential word in time”, ie to capture the essence of things while time flows in them. “Poetry is the dialogue of man, a man with his time”, ie the idea of time Tranmer us the excitement of the time.