Fractales

Books Published in This Series

“Fractales” is a series dedicated to literary creation in the Spanish language, including both narrative and poetic works, collective anthologies, and individual volumes, whether recent publications or titles rescued from obscurity.

The term fractal, from the Latin fractus, means “fragmented,” “fractured,” or simply “broken.” Without a doubt, one of the hallmarks of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary aesthetics is the tendency toward increasingly extreme and disconcerting fragmentation, resulting in structures that are as sprawling as they are elusive, and generating a degree of generic indeterminacy or ambiguity that often becomes the very raison d’être of the work itself. This series aims to provide a home for titles whose generic inconsistency or structural rarity sometimes makes it difficult for them to find a place in more commercial series.

But a fractal is also an object whose broken structure is endlessly repeated at different scales. Beneath its inscrutable appearance, one suspects that this mysterious repetition of patterns holds the key to its aesthetic. Above all, fractals are also — in their unsettling geometry — objects of great beauty. It is under this inspiring image that we launch this new collection of literary curiosities.

The “Fractales” series is supported by a Scientific Committee, composed of renowned experts in Spanish literature, who will oversee the selection of published works. Each volume will also be entrusted to a specialist from the academic field, responsible for the introduction and review of the text and, in the case of anthologies, the selection of materials.

EDITORIAL TEAM

Editors:

Teresa Gómez Trueba (University of Valladolid, Spain)

Carmen Morán Rodríguez (University of Valladolid, Spain)

Scientific Committee:

Javier Blasco Pascual (University of Valladolid, Spain)

Paloma Díaz-Mas (CSIC and UPV/EHU, Spain)

Marco Kunz (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)

Jesús Montoya Juárez (University of Murcia, Spain)

Francisca Noguerol Jiménez (University of Salamanca, Spain)

Elide Pittarello (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy)

Janett Reinstädler (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany)

Domingo Ródenas de Moya (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

Fernando Valls (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

EDITORS OF THE SERIES

Teresa Gómez Trueba (teresa.gomez.trueba@uva.es) and Carmen Morán Rodríguez (carmen.moran@uva.es)

Academic Profile of Teresa Gómez Trueba

PhD in Hispanic Philology and Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Valladolid. She has studied and edited the Obra poética of Juan Ramón Jiménez (Espasa Calpe, 2005, 4 vols.). She is also the author of El sueño literario en España (Cátedra, 1999). In recent years, her work has focused on the latest Spanish fiction, addressing contemporary phenomena such as autofiction, genre hybridity, intermediality, microtextuality, and literature in relation to new technologies — topics on which she has published numerous articles in academic journals and collective volumes. She coordinated the special issue of Ínsula: Novelas híbridas, no. 754 (October 2009), and edited Blog up. Ensayos sobre cultura y sociedad by Agustín Fernández Mallo (University of Valladolid, 2012). Together with Carmen Morán Rodríguez, she co-authored the monograph Hologramas: realidad y relato del siglo XXI (Trea, 2017). Most recently, she has prepared the edition of Mire a cámara, por favor. Antología de relatos sobre tecnología y simulacros (Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, forthcoming).

Academic Profile of Carmen Morán Rodríguez

Carmen Morán Rodríguez holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology and a degree in Hispanic and Classical Philology. She has taught and conducted research at the Universities of the Balearic Islands and Jaén, and is currently a tenured professor at the University of Valladolid. Her research focuses on contemporary Spanish literature, in which field she has published monographs such as Figuras y figuraciones femeninas en la obra de Rosa Chacel (CEDMA, 2008), JRJ y la poesía argentina y uruguaya en el año 48. Historia de una antología nunca publicada (Visor, 2014), and Holograma. Realidad y relato del siglo XXI (Trea, 2017), in collaboration with Teresa Gómez Trueba. She has also edited Arias tristes by Juan Ramón (in Obra poética, Espasa, 2005) and Memorias de Leticia Valle by Rosa Chacel (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2010), among other works. In numerous articles and book chapters, she has explored topics such as non-places and simulacra in contemporary Spanish narrative, the Platonic cave motif in recent literature, its relationship with documentary cinema, and the phenomenon of fanfiction.

CODE OF ETHICS

This series of books will comply with the Good Practice Guidelines of Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid, which adhere to the principles established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The Good Practice Guidelines of Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid define the ethical procedures to be followed by authors, editorial committees, and reviewers, and all parties are requested to observe the relevant sections of the guidelines.