Historical Memory and Ghostly Apparitions: The Spectre in Non hai noite tan longa by Agustín Fernández Paz
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32112/2174.2464.2018.251Keywords:
Agustín Fernández Paz, Galician novel, Historical Memory, Francoism, Spectre, GhostsAbstract
Together with the emergence of the recovery movement of historical memory
in the Spanish state at the beginning of the 21st century, the novel that recreates the period of
the Civil War and Francisco Franco’s regime has experienced a boom that has led to the
fixation of certain recurring tropes such as ghostly apparitions. This paper is based on the
classical theory about the spectres of Derrida and other works that have studied this
phenomenon in the literature to propose an analysis of the role and meaning of the ghost in
the novel Non hai noite tan longa (2011) by the Galician writer Agustín Fernández Paz,
showing both the influence of the Shakespeare’s Hamlet and its relationship with the need to
face a traumatic past that demands justice.
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