Barcelona as a Horizontal and Vertical Narrative Space in the Work of Juan Marsé
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In the work of Juan Marsé, the action is located in a very typical literary space that begins to form from Encerrados con un solo juguete, the author’s first novel. It is a space based on the extraliterary reality ‒the city of Barcelona and some of its neighborhoods‒ that within the text relates to practically all the elements of the narrative, especially the characters and the action. The theories of Gabriel Zoran and Gaston Bachelard allow us to discover how this space contains the symbolic value of the text and can contribute to the interpretation. In Últimas tardes con Teresa this space is already fully configured and in Juan Marsé’s later novels will be implicitly present with the same characteristics.
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Accepted 2021-09-02
Published 2021-10-29
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