Serrallonga: Mental Illness and Degeneration in 19th Century Literature

Context and Genesis

Public debate throughout the nineteenth century created new psychiatric institutionalization centers, psychological studies, and information platforms, creating modern psychiatry.

Anys90: Cesare Lombroso identifies an inseparable inheritance disorder associated with genius and degeneration.

Figure of the crazy in Spain: "If Verdaguer" Final Century: related to medicine, crime, and literature.

Reflex novel process popularization topic of mental illness: Creating characters with attributes and manifestations from medical discourse through fictional debate on the limits of madness.

Serrallonga Daniel: A Star Away

Exit Chapter I, VII, and VIII. The history of Serrallonga we tell from other person perspectives, views, diss.

Three blocks: 1 through 3: presentation of principles; 4 to 6: perspectives; 7 to 9: state of mental alienation: alienation demonstration results.

Construction of the character of naturalism using family history and influence of the social environment. I and II show Serrallonga as a unique individual, exalted and eccentric. Description physical and psychological. III Adela presented as the sensible person, quiet and enterprising. Extravagance collection of portraits of General Prim. IV Armengol gives prominence to aspects of the extravagant person. V Giberga Prospero: Determinism. Enter a hereditary component medical. VI wedding of the protagonist. Reviews Armengol. VII Serrallonga narrator visits the office. Requests him to bring a lawsuit against the sisters. VIII attack Serrallonga jealousy towards his wife. Meeting at Paseo Colon to become a victim of many unfortunate aspects. IX: Serrallonga admitted to an asylum: "Paradise." The novel closes with the funeral ends with violent fight between sisters and widow leading figures: The narradorL'ArmengolPròsper GibergaAdela and Carolina connect with past production of Narcissus Oller taking into account three aspects The spatial setting: frame VilaniuEl Barcelona : the beginning of 1868 until the debacle of the 1883 stock characters: the Galceran, Thomas Riudavets time round and the internal-Chapters I - II - III: between January and Summer 1868IV - V - VI: The 1872VII: the 1878VIII: between 1881 and 1883IX: September 1883

Històricsde likelihood referring to the text: None Y: None Fontova Leo IV: Constituent Assembly (1869), assassination of General Prim (1870) and Third Carlist War (1872-1876) CapVIII: demolition of the Ciutadella Park (1869) and stock market speculation (1881-1883)

The novel critical comments from the Spanish Government Now

Recreates a period relatively near the time of writing.

The Indirect Procedure

Point of view: the author leaves the total benefit likelihood omniscience, introducing subjective elements narration.

The narrator-witness integrates and participates in the plot. Collects and organizes information Giberga Armengol and Prospero. Information through other channels. Two parallel planes converged HistòriaSerrallongaNarrador reflects that reach and compares three different attitudes to the disease Giberga narrator Armengol.

A Debate Over Determinism

Narcis Oller, in response to Zola's madness, presents a confrontation between two opposing views: Prosper Giberga narradpr and defend scientific explanation of deterministic types.

Attitude vs. Giberga il'Armengol narrator: the different attitude to life: Armengol: lack of reflection of society towards bogeriaNarrador: moral dimension to people missing arguments Giberga.

They have, for explanation in case of Serrallon. They believe in the influence of social environment in the process of madness Serralongue.

The stress of guilt given the narrator.

Should consider a number of assumptions: The incorrectness of the material expression is constant The author, who had begun to write in Spanish, not part of Catalan literature until 30El chosen genre-the novel and its realistic referential language presentation function q reproduce reality surrounding

Narcis Oller did not have a tradition of creating a language model. Castellanismes lexicons of words portray CleroCameloAssessinoCalabossoCodejat colloquialisms: IstilIdeies grotesque Confusion between circumcision and constituency (electoral) Calcium Spanish morphological and syntactic