Villalonga und «Anti-Villalonga»: Eine mallorquinische Kontroverse

Abstract

The specific Majorcan form of anti-Semitism, which sometimes still treats the "Xuetes" –Jews converted to Christianity centuries ago– in a segregated way and full of prejudices, has long been a taboo in island literature, until Llorenç Villalonga treated it literarily in his novel Mort de Dama. At the time, Villalonga was politically linked to the Falange and stood out, among other things, for his anti-Semitic attitude. The contradiction between Villalonga as person and as a writer is critically addressed by Antoni Serra in his novel Carrer de l’argenteria 36, in which Villalonga himself appears. This paper is a confrontation of both works.