000146994 001__ 146994 000146994 005__ 20241205091043.0 000146994 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1080/00111619.2024.2407543 000146994 0248_ $$2sideral$$a140369 000146994 037__ $$aART-2024-140369 000146994 041__ $$aeng 000146994 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-5449-6556$$aYebra, José M.$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000146994 245__ $$aPalimpsestuous fragmentation in James Cahill’s Tiepolo Blue 000146994 260__ $$c2024 000146994 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000146994 5203_ $$aThis paper delves into James Cahill’s debut novel, Tiepolo Blue (2022), as an updating of postmodern gay novels like Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker-Prize winner The Line of Beauty (2004). To prove the postness of Tiepolo Blue, some aspects will be addressed. First of all, the novel revises the relation between ethics and aesthetics, for Don, the protagonist, is able to overcome the aporia that blocks many of Hollinghurst’s main characters. In this sense, Kristeva’s concept of the abject is meaningful because Don shifts from the horror of encountering an “abject” piece of art to embracing the Dionysian. Likewise, the article moves from postmodernist intertextuality. For Dillon, the palimpsest is a relational event that conjures up former and new texts on a palimpsestuous surface. Pentimenti, a similar concept referring to the different layers on canvas, are also addressed as long as Tiepolo Blue is set in the world of art. In this conflict between the surface and the subterranean of palimpsests and pentimenti, the protagonist eventually chooses the underworld. This he does by rearranging his aesthetic assumptions and welcoming a fragmented version of art. In this process of middle-age awakening, he loiters London and its layers in a Felliniesque fashion. 000146994 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby-nc-nd$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 000146994 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 000146994 7102_ $$13004$$2345$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.$$cÁrea Filología Inglesa 000146994 773__ $$g(2024), [12 pp.]$$pCritique - Bolingbroke Soc.$$tCritique - Bolingbroke Society$$x0011-1619 000146994 8564_ $$s403961$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/146994/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yPostprint 000146994 8564_ $$s2075410$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/146994/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yPostprint 000146994 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:146994$$particulos$$pdriver 000146994 951__ $$a2024-12-05-08:46:17 000146994 980__ $$aARTICLE