Abstract

This paper aims to analyze how Arturo Pérez-Reverte claims the legacy of the Enlightenment in his historical novel Hombres buenos (2015). The history of two members of the Real Academia Española, in charge of travelling to Paris in the hopes of obtaining all the volumes of the Encyclopedia and bringing them to Spain, allows Pérez-Reverte to create an original account of eighteenth-century Spain. Pérez-Reverte belongs to an intellectual tradition that depicts the Hispanic Enlightenment as inexistent, incomplete, insufficient, or unoriginal. At the same time, however, he keeps his distance from such tradition, by questioning the consensual image of a civilized and enlightened France, and by showing that Spaniards also participated in the creation and dissemination of the Enlightenment. This paper also analyzes how the fictitious account of the eighteenth century is nor only a defense of enlightened Spaniards, but also a way to express desires for the twenty-first century, especially regarding the political and linguistic unity of Spain.

摘要

本文旨在分析ArturoPérez-Reverte如何在他的历史小说Hombres buenos（2015）中主张启蒙运动的遗产。皇家西班牙学院的两名成员的历史，他们负责前往巴黎，希望获得所有百科全书并将它们带到西班牙，使Pérez-Reverte可以创建18世纪西班牙的原始帐目。佩雷斯·里维尔特（Pérez-Reverte）属于一种知识传统，将西班牙启蒙运动描述为不存在，不完整，不足或不原始。然而，与此同时，他通过质疑文明和开明的法国的共识形象，并表明西班牙人也参与了启蒙运动的创造和传播，与这种传统保持距离。本文还分析了18世纪的虚拟描述不仅是对开明的西班牙人的辩护，而且还是表达对21世纪的愿望的一种方式，尤其是在西班牙的政治和语言统一方面。