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Modernidades tru(n)cadas: parodia de la Razón en la obra de Eduardo Mendoza

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Eduardo Mendoza's work has been divided into two thematic groups that he himself has accepted as valid: first, his so-called ‘serious works’, which include his well-known historical novels; second, his minor, works of parody. This article takes two of the works belonging to this second group (El laberinto de las aceitunas (1982) y Sin noticias de Gurb (1991)) to discuss how, through the problematization of thought, language and space, these works reflect the inconsistencies of reason in the Spanish postmodernity emerging during the Transición. To do this, this article will observe the insufficiency of Enlightenment (through Reason) that is present in the epistemological heritage of the narrators in these two novels.
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