13. When Reality Is Too Harsh to Bear: Role-Play in Juan Marsé’s “Historia de detectives”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One. Nineteeth-Century Spanish Realism: Root and Branch
6. 1. Arabella’s Veil: Translating Realism in Don Quijote con faldas (1808) 39
7. 2. Between Costumbrista Sketch and Short Story: Armando Palacio Valdés’s Aguas fuertes 58
8. 3. Money, Capital, Monstrosity: Metaphorical Matrices of Realism in Antonio Flores’s Ayer, hoy y mañana 80
9. Part Two. Modernity and the Parameters of Nineteenth-Century Spanish Realism
10. 4. The Physician in the Narratives of Galdós and Clarín 111
11. 5. Travelling by Streetcar through Madrid with Galdós and Pardo Bazán 144
12. 6. Urban Hyperrealism: Galdós’s Dickensian Descriptions of Madrid 169
13. 7. Observed versus Imaginative Communities: Creative Realism in Galdós’s Misericordia 191
14. Part Three. Stretching the Limits of Spanish Realism
15. 8. Colonialism, Collages, and Thick Description: Pardo Bazán and the Rhetoric of Detail 215
16. 9. Embodied Minds: Critical Erotic Decisions in La Regenta 236
17. 10. María Zambrano on Women, Realism, and Freedom 259
18. Part Four. The Challenges of Genre: Spanish Realism beyond the Novel
19. 11. Writing (Un)clear Code: The Letters and Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán and Benito Pérez Galdós 287
20. 12. “Volvía Galdós triunfante”: Fortunata y Jacinta on Stage (1930) 313
21. 13. When Reality Is Too Harsh to Bear: Role-Play in Juan Marsé’s “Historia de detectives” 343
22. Contributors 369
23. Index 375