Abstract

RODRIGUEZ-RODRIGUEZ, Samuel. Language, fantasy and literature in Andrés Martínez Oria’s invitación a la melancolía. discus.filos [online]. 2020, vol.21, n.36, pp.159-176.  Epub Dec 16, 2020. ISSN 0124-6127.  https://doi.org/10.17151/difil.2020.21.36.10.

Andrés Martínez Oria (Salamanca, 1950) has shown great interest in the use of the novel as a metaphysical exploration, sometimes with encyclopedic aspirations. Invitación a la melancolía (2014) represents a magnificent example of philosophical novel where the short plot is the starting point of a long journey around melancholy.

In this paper, we will focus on several aspects addressed in the text. In the first place, the relationship between language and melancholy; in the second place, fantasy (melancholic) and its aesthetised expression through literature and, finally, hypothetical possibilities of literature as a system of (self)knowledge of a hidden reality but palpable behind the lucid glance of the melancholic individual. The main tool of analysis will be philosophy in addition to psychiatry, psychoanalysis and literary studies.

Keywords : Language; fantasy; literature; Invitación a la melancolía; Martínez Oria.

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