This article analyzes the role Nietzsche's philosophy played in Ramón Gómez de la Serna's (1888-1963) journey toward the Avant-Garde in the early years between 1907 and 1911. Gómez de la Serna's readings of Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Ecce Homo were decisive in defining his sense of self in concepts of truth and falsity. The concern for a self-critical and increasingly "authentic" subjectivity leads Ramón irrevocably to an autobiographical mode of writing in a Nietzschesit sense. However, Ramón's concept of authenticity progressively approached autobiography as a truthful expression of something deeper and more personal: one's "vitalismo." Thus, facts, bearing witness, personal history, and linear temporality need not be privileged in autobiography. Instead, what was truthful cut much deeper into the self and entailed how it overcame its circumstance to locate something more authentic in the presentness of experience.
Whilst critical studies of the Galician poetry of Rosaliá de Castro abound, comparatively scant attention has been paid to her Spanish-language prose. This well-compiled edition of essays in Spanish is therefore a much needed addition to scholarship on the iconic Galician writer. Sporting an extract of Castro's original script on the cover, the book has been published under Icaria Editorial's extensive Mujeres y Culturas series and stems from the research project 'Unha análise da obra narrativa de Rosaliá de Castro: fundamentos teóricos e metodolóxicos'. The contributors employ a diverse range of critical perspectives to interrogate the often misread tensions in Castro's various novels and journalistic articles, highlighting her uneasy position within both the Galician and Spanish literary traditions. Readers can appreciate the complexity of a corpus which satirizes stringent social codes, defying both the restrictive norms of conservative Spanish realism and the emerging monolingual Galician nationalism of which the fundamentally European writer was a reluctant figurehead.
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