"Don Juan", el mito vivo en Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
Abstract
Don Juan by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester reconstructs the myth deepening in the famous seducer psychology. Don Juan is damned but, unlike other versions, it is not due to dishonouring women, but to abandoning them because he’s afraid of loosing his freedom. Torrente Ballester brings face to face a view of sexuality as sin and another of sexuality as an expression of divinity as driving force to the narration. Moreover, he uses mythification and demythification to build his own don Juan. The novel explains don Juan’s motivations, but it keeps the necessary ambiguity to maintain the myth alive.
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