"The pillars of the earth / Los pilares de la tierra"notas sobre textualidad histórica y ficción
ISSN: 0210-7287
Année de publication: 2006
Número: 12
Pages: 161-168
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: 1616: Anuario de la Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada
Résumé
This paper aims at showing the ways in which a novel, The pillars of the earth, deals with one of the darkest episodes in the History of England. The blending of history and fiction is studied as an example of textuality which reveals the influence of medieval chronicles on the plot and on the fictional elements. My analysis looks into the correspondence between the narrative fiction elements and the actual historical facts alluded to throughout the narration. The paper also focuses its attention on onomastics as it deals with the historical coherence existent in the text and the levels of fiction relevant to characters and their names.