Like Father, Unlike Son: Reluctant Heirs in Contemporary Western Literature

Yona Hanhart-Marmor

doi:10.1515/roja-2021-0006

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Like Father, Unlike Son: Reluctant Heirs in Contemporary Western Literature

Yona Hanhart-Marmor

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From the journal Romanistisches Jahrbuch Volume 72 Issue 1

Abstract

This study analyses the contemporary narrator’s paradoxical legitimacy and reveals how it mirrors the equally paradoxical filiation that is taking on new shape in contemporary thought. It also addresses the ability of literature to form unexpected connections; sheds new light on the nature of contemporary filiation by linking it to the spiritual filiation in Christianity; and addresses the definition of filiation itself within literary texts as reflecting some of the main issues of contemporary filiation. The study begins with the examination of the status of the narrator in several contemporary works, revealing one of the most interesting paradoxes of contemporary literature, and going on to analyze the configuration of a conceptual model in which paradoxical filiation becomes the condition for the emergence of success from a narrative of failure.

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