by Juan Marsé · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483462539
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«El amante bilingüe» is the novel by Juan Marsé, published by Debolsillo in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).
Juan Marés, a humble and loving man, is abandoned by his wife, from the Catalan haute bourgeoisie. Ruined and turned into a street musician, he plans to pass himself off as Faneca, a vulgar charnego, to win her back. The fictional mask ends up devouring the real character in this satire on cultural and class differences in Catalonia.
Ateneo de Sevilla Prize (1990). Adapted to film in 1992 by Vicente Aranda, with Imanol Arias and Ornella Mutti.
For readers of Spanish literary fiction interested in social satire, identity, and Barcelona.
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.
