Animalogia i ironia en el Realisme Màgic: a propòsit de Pere Calders

Abstract

The term "magical realism", raised above all to a conceptual category in connection with the new Latin American art of storytelling, can be seen as a contribution made by art reflection to European literature of the twenties and thirties. Bontempelli, exponent of Italian novecentismo, is one of the authors who, together with Pirandello, laid the foundations for a narrative style related to this question that was admired and imitated in the Catalan language and culture. Pere Calders, faithful to very similar aesthetic parameters throughout his narrative career, often introduces animals into his story using the irony that is created by the paradoxical relationships between real world experience and the magical, literarily constructed cosmos.