Barcelona gothic: Carlos Ruiz Zafón's La sombra del viento and the omnipresent past.

This article looks at La sombra del viento as a highly self-conscious gothic text in light of the recent critical debate about the novel's contribution to the growing tradition of the 'memory text'. Although these two modes may seem to have little in common, there is one important point at which the...

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Published in:	Journal of Romance Studies Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 72 - 85
Main Authors:	Byron, Glennis, Byron, Gordon
Format:	Article
Published:	Liverpool University Press / Journals Spring2012
Subjects:	Barcelona (Spain) Spain La sombra del viento (Book) Ruiz Zafón, Carlos, 1964-2020 Memory Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost