Universal frequencies: a wide study of Juan Marsé’s works

Abstract

In recent decades, the work of Juan Marsé has been analyzed from a wide variety of positions that testify to the narrative richness of the author and his fictional world. The diversity of the academic result shows the proliferation of levels with which the writer works and the difficulty (almost the impossibility) of looking at it from a single perspective. For all these reasons, our purpose in this article is to offer a complementary approach, which allows us to join the compendium, but from an element barely worked: the relationship between Marsé’s social class and his literary production. We propose a panoramic study that allows to identify the frequencies of his narrative universe, the most recurring elements in the fictional set of his work, and the link that these frequencies have with the author. The objective is to join the variety of proposals, but doing so from a panoramic view that observes the total set of his narrative production and, therefore, the ins and outs of a connected universe.