Bernardo Atxaga: canon, plagio y euskera literario

Margin and freedom: The space of world literature seen from the Basque Country and Catalonia

“… 6. The intertextuality of Atxaga’s oeuvre is also underlined in other studies, such as that of Juan Pablo Gil-Oslé, who analyses ‘la jocosa incorporación al canon en euskera de una serie de intertextos y tradiciones literarias invocadas por Atxaga, todo ello con el objetivo político y artístico de dotar al euskera de una ficción literaria capaz de justificar un imaginario colectivo descolonizado’ (‘the playful incorporation of the Basque canon in a series of intertexts and literary traditions evoked by Atxaga, all this with the political and artistic aim to provide Basque with a literary fiction able to justify the decolonized collective imaginary’) (2014: 869). …”