We have said goodbye to Juan Marsé. He was 87 years old and has been one of the most important narrators of contemporary literature in this country. From Barcelona, it's gone from there too. Leave a full legacy unforgettable titles as Last afternoons with Teresa, If they tell you that I fell or The Shanghai spell, in addition to articles, stories and other works. Winner of Planet Award and the Cervantes, his name is linked to the best narrative. This is a review to his work.
Locked up with just one toy (1960)
The first novel by Juan Marsé is a set of many of the characters, themes and recurring settings in all his later work. It tells the story of some middle-class young people, children of families affected by the civil war.
Latest afternoons with Teresa (1966)
It was Brief Library Award and also his most recognized success also internationally. With characters as unique as that Preppy, typical example of the lower and marginalized classes that seek social prestige, and Teresa, a beautiful girl, student and from a good family of the Catalan high bourgeoisie.
It became a Film adaptation en 1984 by Gonzalo herralde, who also signs the script together with his own Juan Marsé. And had a cast of bluebells with Maribel Martín, Ángel Alcázar, Cristina Marsillach, Mónica Randall or Alberto Closas among many others.
If they tell you that I fell (1973)
Another fundamental title in Marsé's work. He wrote it in the late sixties and it was banned by censorship, for his picture of life during the Franco regime. It is also one of his most personal novels.
Girl with the Golden Panties (1978)
The protagonist is Luys Forest, an old Falangist writer, widower and with a very reduced literary prestige, who writes his memoirs retouching them at his convenience and in the most romantic way possible. The counterpoint is put by his niece Mariana -the girl with the golden panties-, warning him of the consequences of wanting to remake his past. Winner of Planet AwardWas taken to the movies in 1979 by Vicente Aranda and it starred Victoria Abril.
One day i will return (1982)
Jan Julivert Monn He was a guerrilla and robber of banks during the first postwar period. When he leaves prison, before everyone's expectation to see how and what his revenge will be, however, he returns home with that revenge forgotten and the only intention to rebuild a life that everyone already considers wasted.
The bilingual lover (1990)
Juan Mares he is a dreamer who has made himself, whom his wife cheats and abandons even though he is totally in love. Sunken In despair and destitution, he becomes an outcast who wanders through the slums of Barcelona until he comes up with a plan: that of impersonate a charnego called Faneca to win back his ex-wife.
Vicente Aranda was again in charge of his film adaptation en 1993 that starred Imanol Arias and Ornella Mutti among others.
Shanghai package (1993)
We are in the Barcelona of 1984, and the captain blay he still mourns the lost war and his sons killed there. With him goes the little daniel and together they walk between characters like Chacón brothers, who guard the entrance of the house in which he lives Susana, a sick girl, daughter of Anita and Kim, a revolutionary. There comes a friend and traveling companion of Kim, forces, who will narrate to the children the adventure that the girl's father had in Shanghai, faced with Nazis, merciless gunmen and fatal women.
Fernando Trueba he signed his film version in 2002 they starred Ariadne Gil, Fernando Fernan Gomez, Jorge Sanz or Rosa Maria Sardà.
Lizard tails (2000)
Again we have a very imaginative teenager as the protagonist, David and his dog Spark. They, together with the enamored Inspector Galván, or Rosa Bartra, a beautiful pregnant redhead, once again compose a cast of unforgettable characters in a story with more dreams and ghosts involved.