Critical Analysis - Entre Visillos is part of the Spanish Post war Narrative movement.

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Critical Analysis

Entre Visillos is part of the Spanish Post war Narrative movement. Published in 1957, this novel is one of the major pieces of literature under Franco’s regime; it was awarded the Premio Nadal in 1957. This novel is part of the antirealist movement that developed under Franco’s regime, depicting the non reality under Franco. Through the use of imaginary discourse, metonymy and metaphor the author has managed to make a brilliant and extreme critique of the society as she experienced it during the dictatorship whilst still escaping censorship. This novel develops the concept of private reading, the implicit that comes out through the way things are said and not what is said.

The passage studied in this Critical Analysis is taken from the sixteenth chapter. This chapter is one of Natalia’s. She becomes the narrator of her own story, we read this passage through her own words and see what is happening through her eyes of a person more than a character of the novel. We see the developing of the introspective process that Natalia experiences by the writing of her diary. Through the way she writes in this passage, one can observe a defining moment for her, where through the comparison of what she knows and who she knows, Natalia makes a decision that will influence the rest of her life and define her as a person, she decides to study and to make education a major issue in her existence. The theme of identity is major in this passage indeed Natalia is making a very conscious decision about herself and whom she wants to become, the fact that this decision is conscious makes it all the more important for her, it defines her as a character and as a person.

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By first analyzing the characters of the passage, we’ll see how Natalia is in relationship to her entourage, rapport that she writes in her diary. This leads us to studying the way in which the passage has been written and then to observe the authors underlying ideas.

This passage specifically refers to the relationship between Natalia and her friend Alicia. This is shown in the text through the dialogues with Alicia that she reports (lines 8-17, 64-66, 76-89). Natalia also goes into great detail describing her friend; a whole paragraph is taken to go into describing Alicia’s family background. ...

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