Ana Georgieva

"For us Spanish writers, there is only one kind of escape - escape into reality." The quote is borrowed from the book by the young Spanish novelist Juan Goytisolo, "Problems of the Novel." Although formally this thought contains a paradox, a thorough examination of contemporary Spanish literature shows that "escape into reality" is its defining direction. And since this tendency is most clearly expressed in prose: fiction and drama, the subject of this article will be the new Spanish novel. The Spanish novel of the last ten years - this is enough to specify the concept of new. As for "Spanish", it should be noted at the very beginning that no one is able to exclude from Spanish literature, through censorship and prohibitions, the émigré writers who work in Paris, Mexico or elsewhere. They are Spanish writers like all the others, not to mention: perhaps more than all. Their works, published abroad in Spanish or other languages, form, together with what is published in Spain, the shape of contemporary Spanish literature.