The fantastic horror and fear in "Los muertos, las muertas y otras fantasmagorías", by Ramón Gómez de la Serna: echos of Bécquer, Maupassant and Poe

Authors

  • Rafael Cabañas Alamán Saint Louis University, Madrid (España)

Keywords:

fear, horror, the fantastic, the dead, Gómez de la Serna, Bécquer, Maupassant, Poe

Abstract

This essay will study the fantastical horror and the theme of fear in Los muertos, las muertas y otras fantasmagorías (1935) in order to exemplify how Ramón Gómez de la Serna makes literary use of such emotions implicitly and explicitly, taking into account the writer’s own reflections on horror and fear of death. Analysis will be made of how these narrative manifestations are represented in some microstories included in this book, establishing relevant connections, related to the topics indicated, with some of Bécquer, Maupassant and Poe’s fictions.

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Published

2020-09-01

Issue

No. 41 (2020): Miscelánea

Section

Articles

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How to Cite

Cabañas Alamán, R. (2020). The fantastic horror and fear in "Los muertos, las muertas y otras fantasmagorías", by Ramón Gómez de la Serna: echos of Bécquer, Maupassant and Poe. Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna, 41, 33-49. https://www.ull.es/revistas/index.php/filologia/article/view/1941