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Este libro revisa las etapas más ricas que ha experimentado el fenómeno literario en los últimos tiempos. En primer lugar se presenta el contexto político y cultural, señalando lo más característico de las distintas décadas que integran este interesante período, con referencia a la mediación, la recepción y la recreación del hecho literario. A continuación se estudian la novela del exilio y de la posguerra, la realista, la nueva narrativa, la novela de finales del siglo XX y principios del siglo XXI, el relato breve, los principales movimientos poéticos desde 1939 hasta nuestros días y el teatro desde finales de la guerra civil española hasta la actualidad. En este apartado s...
A history of Spanish detective fiction from Alarcon's "El clavo," published twelve years after Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," up to the present. The presentation of the highly entertaining sleuth characters is based on a detailed examination of the works and, in many cases, personal interviews with the writers.
This book studies the emergence, in the late 1960s and 1970s, of a sophisticated body of gay fiction in Catalan, and examines the relation between the representation of homosexuality and the discourses on national identity that legitimate modern Catalan literature. Gay fiction, argues the author, reveals a tension between the nation and the body in Catalan literature: Catalonia is a nation different from Spain, a cultural and political minority within Europe; but the existence of sexual minorities within its boundaries reveals its inner complexity, which resists homogenization. Catalonia is another country in more ways than one. Drawing on a variety of critical discourses (gay theory, psycho...