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The shadow of Maeterlinck's La vie des abeilles and El espríitu de la colmena

Miles, Robert

Authors

Robert Miles



Abstract

No critic of El espríitu de la colmena (1973, Víctor Erice) has systematically analysed the - albeit brief - citation of the work of the Belgian prose writer and poet, Maurice Maeterlinck, although some insist that the allusion to the entire text is key. This essay seeks to explore the way in which the film subtly incorporates elements of this famous book on apiculture as a structural narrative base. Further, it also analyses the socio-historic implications of this citation/incorporation or problematic 'shadow', the dialectic and ambiguities of sacrifice and transcendence in the double context of the film's post-Civil War setting, and its construction and release in the 1970s during the Franco regime.

Citation

Miles, R. (2010). The shadow of Maeterlinck's La vie des abeilles and El espríitu de la colmena. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 87(8), 961-975. https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2010.40

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 16, 2010
Publication Date 2010-01
Journal BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES
Print ISSN 1475-3839
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 87
Issue 8
Pages 961-975
DOI https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2010.40
Keywords Linguistics and Language; Literature and Literary Theory; Language and Linguistics
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/396397



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