Abstract

Provides an in-depth study of Munoz Molina's narrative production from 1982 to 1995 with a critical focus on narratology, metafiction, reader response, intertextuality, and the fictive autobiography. His adaptations of such genres as the detective story, the feuilleton, and the autobiography are presented as conforming a "self-conscious realism" that reflects the epistemological uncertainty and moral ambiguity characteristic of Spain's post-Franco "desencanto."Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.