Il Maquis nella letteratura spagnola contemporanea. Storia, memoria e rappresentazione narrativa

This thesis analyzes the representation of the maquis in contemporary Spanish literature, written in Castilian and published from 1985 to present. The thesis is divided into three chapters: the first presents the methodology and theoretical tools used in the course of the study, and primarily focuses on trying to define and classify the maquis' novels, focusing on the cultural background to which they refer, presenting the neomodern and postmodern aesthetics and trying to situate the narrative works which are included in the research corpus. The second chapter focuses on the analysis of the relationship between history and narrative: while it is centered on the interdisciplinary debate about the connections between history and fiction, the analysis tries to register the contemporary debate about it in the novels chosen as part of the corpus. Finally, the third chapter deals with the analysis of animal metaphors in novels such as Julio Llamazares's Luna de lobos and Justo Vila's La agonà­a del bàºho chico. The use of this figure of speech answers both to a research of verisimilitude and to the representation of empirical reality, bringing their attention to the different ways of figuration and access to the knowledge of the world. The proposal of a paradigm shift in aesthetic and narrative taking place in contemporary Spanish literature is the main focus of the analysis, which central postulate is the research for a confirmation to the hypothesis that asserts that maquis' novels fits into the coeval debate, and contribute to the development of neomodern aesthetic paradigm being defined nowadays, looking for a confirmation that relies on the presence of those issues which are basic traits of these novels and which were reported in the methodological discussion proposed in the first chapters.