2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Representation of the Spanish Inquisition in Spanish Literature at the end of the Twentieth Century

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21820043
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	European literature (English literature excluded)
Research Institution	Keio University (2010) Nihon University (2009)
Principal Investigator	MARUTA Chikako Keio University, 経済学部, 講師 (00548414)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2010
Keywords	外国語文学(中・英・仏・独を除く) / スペイン文学 / 異端審問 / 歴史小説
Research Abstract	This research is about Las visiones de Lucrecia (1996) and El hereje (1998), two historical novels about the Spanish Inquisition of the sixteenth century. Paying attention to the fact that two novels were published in the 1990s, I argued that two novelsreexamine and reinterpret the Inquisitorial cases taking different approach from historians' research, and through describing the protagonists'failed relationship to their family, the novelists raise the issue of family, which is also seen in present-day Spanish society.

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