I gave you eyes and you looked towards darkness by Irene Solà: affinity with Goya and intertextuality with Woolf, Rodoreda, Coll, et al. Cover Image

Et vaig donar ulls i vas mirar les tenebres d'Irene Solà: afinitat goiesca i intertextualitat amb Woolf, Rodoreda, Coll et al.
I gave you eyes and you looked towards darkness by Irene Solà: affinity with Goya and intertextuality with Woolf, Rodoreda, Coll, et al.

Author(s): Teresa Iribarren
Subject(s): Other Language Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: Irene Solà; intertextuality; misogyny; Francisco de Goya; Virginia Woolf; Mercè Rodoreda;

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the sophisticated intertextual operation of literary and religious syncretism carried out by Irene Solà in I gave you eyes and you looked towards darkness (2023). It highlights the correspondences between Witches' sabbath (1823) by Goya and the text that inspired it, Auto de fe (1811, 1820) by Fernández de Moratín. The argument is made that Solà constructs a coven to celebrate female sexual pleasure and condemn patriarchal violence against witches. The analysis of seven hypotexts – New Testament as well as works by Jaume Roig, Goethe, Woolf, Víctor Català, Rodoreda, and Pep Coll – supports the claim that Solà distorts Woolf's Mrs Dalloway to shape a feminist coven centred on a blasphemous transposition of Bernadette Soubirous.

  • Issue Year: 52/2025
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 117-130
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Catalan
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