by Juan Marsé · Editorial Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408035343
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«El amante bilingüe» is the contemporary novel by Juan Marsé, published by Editorial Planeta in paperback (220 pages, in Spanish).
After his wife leaves him, Juan Marés reinvents himself as Faneca, a picturesque charnego, to try to win her back. The farce spirals out of control and the fictional identity ends up dominating him; the story portrays the desire to be someone else and the social and linguistic contradictions of a divided Barcelona.
The novel was originally published in 1990 and won the Ateneo de Sevilla Prize that year; this 2000 edition belongs to the Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos collection.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and followers of Juan Marsé, especially those who appreciate cultural duality.
Juan Marsé Carbó was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who used Spanish as his literary language. In 2008, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, "the Spanish-language equivalent" to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
