La conjura contra Porky and the Musical World of Fernando Vallejo
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literature and music, Fernando Vallejo, intermediality, comparative literatureAbstract
This article analyzes the musical world of Fernando Vallejo as presented in his latest publication, La conjura contra Porky (2023). It outlines the influence of music on the author’s prose, illustrating how musical references highlight different vital stages in the life of the narrator-protagonist. This analysis allows for an understanding of the transversal role that musical resources play across Vallejo’s collection of novels. La conjura contra Porky facilitates a dialogue between Vallejo’s novels, revealing his relationship with both popular commercial music and classical music. This, in turn, enables an exploration of intermediality in Vallejo’s work, following one of the three divisions proposed by Irina Rajewsky. The aim is to provide a fresh perspective on Vallejo’s oeuvre through this recent publication, from the standpoint of comparative literature and studies on the relationship between music and literature (musician-literary studies).
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