History and Literature or the rescue of an eighteenth-century eighteenth century

Abstract

This article proposes how a case study, carried out by Carmen Martín Gaite's El proceso de Macanaz: bistora de un bistora de un empapelamiento), can be analysed as an expression of the literary of the literary technique of ‘distancing’. This tool, of literature since it was articulated by Bertolt Brecht, makes it possible to denounce Brecht, allows a denunciation of the immediate present to be made using an apparently distant past as a pretext. It is proposed that Martín Gaite, favoured by this practice, can denounce the circumstances of the dictatorship, can denounce the circumstances of Franco's dictatorship, in particular the suspicious alliances between a sector of the church and the totalitarian state. church and the totalitarian state. This criticism is viable in times of dictatorship of dictatorship by being contextualised in the review of an eighteenth-century inquisitorial eighteenth-century inquisitorial case. In addition, this article analyses how the historiographical discourse enunciated by the author articulates alternative representations of women alternative to the Francoist canon, especially those figures disseminated and sponsored by and sponsored by the ‘Women's Section of the Falange’. Falange’. Finally, this essay corroborates how such a diverse body of work invites exploration. such a diverse body of work invites exploration from an interdisciplinary perspective. interdisciplinary perspective. Far from emphasising the possible confrontations between literature and history confrontations between literature and history, this study proposes the consideration of the consideration of their points of contact, in order to achieve an integrative socio-cultural an integrative socio-cultural approach that bears witness to the richness of this diverse the richness of this multifaceted production.