The Writer who Painted Himself: Álvaro Retana’s Figurines

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Sara TORO BALLESTEROS

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The aim of this paper is to analyze the fruitful relations between literature and fashion among the literary and pictorial work of multifaceted and charismatic Álvaro Retana (1890-1970). In order to do so, his biography will be depicted, as well as a comparative study on his fashion sketches for variety performances in the novel Las Locas de Postín. Both, allegedly frivolous, show an unexpected liberal approach to the representation of women and homosexuality in Pre-Spanish Civil War.

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TORO BALLESTEROS, S. “The Writer Who Painted Himself: Álvaro Retana’s Figurines”. Creneida. Journal of Hispanic Literatures, no. 3, Nov. 2015, pp. 183-08, doi:10.21071/calh.v3i.5304.
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Portrait in Modernism