The general characteristics of the Gothic novel in Spain
In Spain is the source of crime fiction with a novel written in Catalan by Rafael Tasis (1906-1966) entitled A crim to Parallel (1960), a thriller that explodes Reef inteligentmente the cabarets of the city of Barcelona in the 30s, with the role of the curator and journalist Vilagut Caldes.Thus, the thriller in Spain appears strongly and widely in the postwar black Francoist repression portraying climate and prevailing moral corruption. Catalonia is a land of great writers of detective novels in both Castilian and Catalan, it must not be a coincidence, as this type this type of novel develops its arguments in urban areas in large cities. In the case of Spain, Barcelona is one of the main stages of many crime novels that portray both the oppressive environment of the cells of the civil and police guard Franco, as the world of wheeling and dealing, smuggling, and daring breakout Barcelona Parallel cabarets. The Spanish thriller is, therefore, a mixture of detective story with social commentary. Describe conflicts, crime, violence and sex in a corrupt society, leaving aside politics and ideology changing and despite repression.In Spanish, authors like Thomas Salvador and Fernando Martinez Lainez are considered the pioneers of this genre, but this famous novel titled Meat barter, which was released in 1977. Other prominent authors from this period are Manuel Vasquez-Montalban (series opened with Tattoo Carvalho 1977), Eduardo Mendoza and Manuel de Pedrolo.Later, in the eighties, with new socio-political conditions, you exceed these baseline characteristics conditioned by the Franco regime and evolving thriller portraying modern social aspects. In these years, there is a boom in production genre novel itself, which also covers the erotic and to a lesser degree, science fiction, mythical fantasy, humor and terror. A great crime novelist of this period is Ferran Torrent Valencia, which portrays social and political corruption with touches of humor. It is in this second period where we place the work of Elia Barceló has written numerous works of science fiction and fantasy. And the novel opens in black with Long Shadows (2009).The plot of this genre aspects are related to fear, violence, injustice, insecurity and corruption. Common is the appearance of the characters in places where prevailing political and moral corruption. The crime occurs in degraded environments where most frequently committed crime and the resolution is not a primary objective, but not explicit elucidation of moral motivation, since the characters often cross the barrier between good and evil. Often, the motivation of the crime due to some human weakness: anger, lust for power, envy, hatred, greed, lust, etc. Stylistically, the dialogues show crude language, often street, gives more importance to the development of the action that crime analysis, description and sometimes impressionistic naturalist society and there is a reflection, sometimes not explicit, the ethical deterioration.By: Oreto Doménech & Corpus Requena
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