Romance Quarterly. Volume 56, 2009 – Issue 4
There is an observable trend in Spanish contemporary fiction to reveal the logic behind the creation of a new paradigm of reality. According to Gianni Vattimo, Daniel Innerarity, and Jean Baudrillard, this paradigm, initially described as a spectacle, ends up occupying the space of everyday life. Within this framework, the counter-nostalgic and «thinking» novel adds to the communicative function of language a destabilizing intent that allows the novelist to scratch the protective surface that prevents the subject from having contact with him- or herself and with his or her surroundings.