La "nueva narrativa" en los años noventa

La literatura no ha existido siempre. Los discursos a los que hoy aplicamos el nombre de «literarios» constituyen una realidad histórica que sólo ha podido surgir a partir de una serie de condiciones –asimismo históricas– muy estrictas: las condiciones derivadas del nivel ideológico característico de las formaciones sociales «modernas» o «burguesas» en sentido general. En consecuencia, habrá que preguntarse: ¿qué caracterizaciones concretas otorga el horizonte teórico actual a los discursos literarios? ¿Qué sentido real puede poseer entonces toda esa amplia gama de...

A sixteen-year-old girl writes in her diary about all the problems and events of her life, which include romance, depression, animal rights, stress, and health.

The story of a small French town during the 19th century. When a beautiful young woman moves into an old run down house, strange things start to happen.

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts — between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the confrontation of these incongruous texts a narrative is born which, through the destruction of textual hierarchies, creates an ambiguous and often duplicitous texture of storytelling. Five paradigms, based upon five Novelas Contemporaneas, are used to exemplify the dialogical structure of the new...