Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
novelista de genio
English translation:
(a novelist who is a ) creative genius
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Yvonne Gallagher
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novelista de genio
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A Spanish writer and philosopher:
La pregunta pertinente es: ¿qué tienen en común todos estos autores? La respuesta es que todos estos grandes novelistas fueron novelistas filósofos; esto es, precisamente lo contrario que novelistas de tesis. La novela, pues, como decantación de la filosofía. El novelista de genio devora el pensamiento, lo metaboliza y nos devuelve un producto novedoso que, llevando esa sustancia viva en su interior, es, sin embargo, otra cosa, algo más.
This seems to be something more specific than "an ingenious novelist" but I could not find any convincing hits on the internet.
Thanks
La pregunta pertinente es: ¿qué tienen en común todos estos autores? La respuesta es que todos estos grandes novelistas fueron novelistas filósofos; esto es, precisamente lo contrario que novelistas de tesis. La novela, pues, como decantación de la filosofía. El novelista de genio devora el pensamiento, lo metaboliza y nos devuelve un producto novedoso que, llevando esa sustancia viva en su interior, es, sin embargo, otra cosa, algo más.
This seems to be something more specific than "an ingenious novelist" but I could not find any convincing hits on the internet.
Thanks
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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
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Ireland
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(a novelist who is a ) creative genius
a truly great novelist
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or
imaginative genius
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or even
INSPIRED NOVELIST
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_(literature)
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(from the wiki link)
With the incorporation of Sigmund Freud's theories of poetic madness and the irrationality of imagination deriving from the subconscious, "genius" in poetry entered 20th century critical parlance as, again, something inherent in the writer. The writer was special and set aside from others by "genius," which might be a psychic wound or a particular formation of the ego but which was nonetheless unique to that particular person and was the critical feature that made that person an artist. Irving Babbitt's writings discuss the genius in the Modernist view. Again, genius is something above skill, something that cannot be explained, contained, or diagnosed.
Since Modernism's decline, "genius" has faded somewhat from critical discussions. As writing has focused on its own media and writers have focused on process (e.g. the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets and post-modernism), the belief in a special trait that makes the artist above the run of humanity, and more particularly the view that skill is inferior to imagination, has been in decline. However, there is an emergent concept of genius associated with the culture of certain contemporary literary circles. Such an image of genius is often defined in opposition to the figure of the critic, the former being more independent and spontaneous in their thought, the latter being more self-reflective but consequently restricted to responding to, rather than creating, enduring cultural artifacts. The earliest version of this formulation is to be found in Lessing's commentary on Kant's notion of genius. Kant scholar Jane Kneller articulates the subtlety of his distinction by explaining "genius demonstrates its autonomy not by ignoring all rules, but by deriving the rules from itself."[1]
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you could even say
"the novelist as artistic genius"
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glad to have heped
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glad to have heLped!
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or
imaginative genius
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Note added at 1 hr (2012-12-16 20:37:49 GMT)
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or even
INSPIRED NOVELIST
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_(literature)
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Note added at 1 hr (2012-12-16 20:39:47 GMT)
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(from the wiki link)
With the incorporation of Sigmund Freud's theories of poetic madness and the irrationality of imagination deriving from the subconscious, "genius" in poetry entered 20th century critical parlance as, again, something inherent in the writer. The writer was special and set aside from others by "genius," which might be a psychic wound or a particular formation of the ego but which was nonetheless unique to that particular person and was the critical feature that made that person an artist. Irving Babbitt's writings discuss the genius in the Modernist view. Again, genius is something above skill, something that cannot be explained, contained, or diagnosed.
Since Modernism's decline, "genius" has faded somewhat from critical discussions. As writing has focused on its own media and writers have focused on process (e.g. the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets and post-modernism), the belief in a special trait that makes the artist above the run of humanity, and more particularly the view that skill is inferior to imagination, has been in decline. However, there is an emergent concept of genius associated with the culture of certain contemporary literary circles. Such an image of genius is often defined in opposition to the figure of the critic, the former being more independent and spontaneous in their thought, the latter being more self-reflective but consequently restricted to responding to, rather than creating, enduring cultural artifacts. The earliest version of this formulation is to be found in Lessing's commentary on Kant's notion of genius. Kant scholar Jane Kneller articulates the subtlety of his distinction by explaining "genius demonstrates its autonomy not by ignoring all rules, but by deriving the rules from itself."[1]
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you could even say
"the novelist as artistic genius"
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Note added at 2 days21 hrs (2012-12-19 17:28:40 GMT) Post-grading
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glad to have heped
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glad to have heLped!
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Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes
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novelist of genius
Según el DRAE, acepción 4, "genio" es la"capacidad mental extraordinaria para crear o inventar cosas nuevas y admirables".
Según el Concise Oxford Dictionary, "genius" es "exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability."
Significa lo mismo.
Sugiero, pues, "novelist of genius".
Ejemplo:
books.google.es/books?isbn=0813918006
Moreland Perkins - 1998 - Literary Criticism
Now, if that principle holds for the ignorantly superstitious amateur, it equally holds for the sophisticated critic interpreting the text of a novelist of genius.
Según el Concise Oxford Dictionary, "genius" es "exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability."
Significa lo mismo.
Sugiero, pues, "novelist of genius".
Ejemplo:
books.google.es/books?isbn=0813918006
Moreland Perkins - 1998 - Literary Criticism
Now, if that principle holds for the ignorantly superstitious amateur, it equally holds for the sophisticated critic interpreting the text of a novelist of genius.
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jack_speak
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a novelist by nature / a true novelist
One definition of genio is character or "nature"
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a truly creative/original novelist
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gifted novelist
This is the one that sprung to mind for me.
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