Resumen de Marés, Faneca y el torero enmascarado o cómo asaltar el mito nacional y monolingüe en El amante bilingüe de Juan Marsé
During Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy, numerous political reforms were introduced against Franco's repressive, nationalistic regime. As Spanish democracy progressed, all regions developed their own governmental bodies that created new nationalistic policies, such as Catalonia being able to promote Catalan as the region's official language. This historical backdrop provides the framework to an understanding of our protagonist's journey in El Amante Bilingüe, as he faces a new social, emotional and linguistic reality. Confronting this foreign paradigm of a new democratic Catalonia forces Marés to develop a new identity that will help him deal with conflicts he had already faced during his monolingual past
