Vázquez Montalbán´s Galíndez, Eduar El-Jarrat´s The Road of the Vulture: Typologie of the contemporary historical novel

Abstract

In the present study we analyze two contemporary novels as variants of the contemporary historical novel: Vázquez Montalbán´s Galíndez, and Eduar El-Jarrat´s The Road of the Vulture. Given its nature, this study faces several obstacles, specially because it addresses two books written in two different languages - Spanish and Arabic - which are part of two different cultures that have undergone a very different social and historical development. However, both texts can be read from a specific perspective based on the principles of Literary Theory and a new critical approach. The authors do share a very innovative literary vision: they have written two modern novels that transgress literary genres and suggest a very personal poetics.