Juan Marsé, a «reader of fictions, an unconditional lover of fabulation»

Abstract

The obituary pays tribute to Juan Marsé. He worked as an apprentice for years in a jewelry workshop and accumulated various readings: from the literature of kiosk to the book recommendations of friends and neighbors (novel of the XIX, Cervantes, etc.). Thanks to his mother’s friendship with the writer, critic and translator Paulina Crusat, the young Marsé published his first stories in Insula; he also collaborated with the film magazine Arcinema. The writing is perceived by him as an artistic battle against forgetfulness and forgetfulness, starring creatures who share, for the most part, a condition of anti-hero.