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Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2013

Nuala Kenny
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National University of Maynooth, Ireland
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He escrito algunos libros. Con ellos he pretendido llegar a los demás, comunicarme con los otros. Que me conozcan mejor y, en consecuencia, me quieran más. En este deseo seguramente hay un punto de narcisismo. Me he sentido, desde muy pronto y sin saberlo, parte solidaria de la humanidad. Nunca he encontrado nada que me apasionara más que los seres humanos que he tenido a mi alrededor. Nada me ha conmovido tanto como la tragedia de nacer para morir. La generosidad me ha parecido, siempre, la forma más deseable de vivir las relaciones humanas. La ética y la estética han sido las dos guías de mi conducta. El trabajo bien hecho, la meta de mi actividad profesional. El existencialismo, la tendencia filosófica más cercana a mi sentido de la vida.

(Aldecoa, Distancia, p. 232)

This study has demonstrated how Aldecoa's narrative reconfigures women's identity in contemporary Spain and confronts the memory of the Spanish Civil War and the years of the Francoist dictatorship, exploring its deep psychological impact on current and future generations. In examining the cultural and social myths surrounding women's role in Spanish society, Aldecoa deconstructs traditional patriarchal paradigms and offers a new, more complex understanding of women's identity, free from existing hierarchical and binary structures. This rejection of the patriarchal system that pervades the fabric of Western culture is further extended by Aldecoa in her depiction of the Civil War and dictatorial regime.

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The Novels of Josefina Aldecoa
Women, Society and Cultural Memory in Contemporary Spain
, pp. 231 - 235
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2012

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  • Nuala Kenny, National University of Maynooth, Ireland
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  • Conclusion
  • Nuala Kenny, National University of Maynooth, Ireland
  • Book: The Novels of Josefina Aldecoa
  • Online publication: 05 February 2013
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