RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Djandué, Bi Drombé
T1 The militarization of the picaresque in Duelo en El Paraíso by Juan Goytisolo
JF Romanica Olomucensia
YR 2015
VO 27
IS 2
SP 259
OP 269
DO 10.5507/ro.2015.021
UL https://romanica.upol.cz/artkey/rom-201502-0008.php
AB Duelo en El Paraíso, by Juan Goytisolo, a Spanish writer of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, is a romantic drama starring a band of orphaned children in the final months of the Spanish Civil War. Having gradually assimilated the violence around them, these orphaned children gathered in a Catalan school engage in dangerous and deadly games. Because they borrow the material, psychological, and ideological instruments of their desocialization in the context of war, the picaresque is militarized in Duelo en El Paraíso.