Abstract

The present article analyzes the function of ideology, history, and Fuster, Jaume “mythical novel”, that is to say, the trilogy composed of the following works: L’Illa de les Tres Taronges, L’Anell de Ferro i El Jardí de les Palmeres. Attention will be paid to Fuster’s double condition of writer and activist, which proves to be inseparable in his identity of a Catalan intellectual, as well as to the construction of an Literary genrenarrative mode by means Literary genrefantasy elements. It will be argued that the trilogy employs a Tolkien-like basis Literary genremedievalizing marvelous in order to build an innovative literary work according to postmodern parameters and that Catalan secessionism and left-wing ideology are paramount in Fuster’s narrative strategy.