Santiago Morales- Rivera

Anatomia Del Desencanto: Humor, Ficcion Y Melancolia En Espana (1976-1998) - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures Santiago Morales- Rivera

Notions such as disenchantment, trauma, memory, and empathy inform virtually all the analyses of modern Spanish culture, from the Civil War to the transition to democracy. Santiago Morales intervenes in this approach to history and to the novelistic production of the transition by recovering the links and tensions that the notion of melancholy maintains with the aesthetics of black humour in a corpus of fictional works written between 1976 and 1998.