For an approach to the modern rewritings (19th-20th centuries) of the Castilian chivalric books and Don Quixote. The AmadíssigloXX portal

Abstract

Spanish chivalric narrative, after the extraordinary literary flowering of the 16th century, experienced a long period of crisis, at least until the threshold of Romanticism, with the rediscovery of the Middle Ages as a literary chronotope. Subsequently, the narrative model of chivalric books was to live other times of renewed fortune both in the civil war and post-war period, in the context of the so-called «Falangist literature», as in contemporary times with authors such as Álvaro Cunqueiro and Juan Perucho. With the Amadíssiglo XX portal, the Roman research group at La Sapienza University intends to create a database of modern rewritings of the chivalric books and Don Quixote. In this article the project will be detailed with the presentation of the criteria for the formation of the corpus and the work carried out.