El erotismo en la narrativa de Juan Marséun delicado equilibrio

Abstract

When discussing the writing of Juan Marsé, there seems to be disagreement among literary criticism. Some critics place the Catalan writer within the "Generation of Half a Century"; there were writers whose children were stolen by the Civil War and were victims of the moral and economic devastation that shattered the country after the war. These writers began to write during the fifties, a time when there was a small economic takeoff, when the worst years of the postwar were over and the country began to breathe with slight optimism. All of these writers have in common their social concern and the denunciation of injustices. Marsé's novels are no different as they reflect this situation as well as carry out hard condemnation. According to other critics, his writing is part of the Social Realism movement - a movement that shares the same social concerns and wants this reflected in the works created. However, Marsé has always rejected any claim to a literary stream; his only concern is "to tell a story and to tell it well" and to be above trends or literary fashions. He is considered a "goldsmith" of language and, despite the seeming simplicity of his prose, there is a meticulous elaboration resulting from his search for precision and perfectionism, both of which cause him a few headaches. His extensive literary career encompasses historical periods ranging from the Franco dictatorship to the present. He wrote his first novel Encerrados con un solo juguete in 1960 and his latest one Esa puta tan distinguida was just published in 2016 and witness the history and the political changes; the novel's pages serve as testimony in the discovery of key moments of Spain's most recent history ...