EDUARDO MENDOZA’S LA VERDAD SOBRE EL CASO SAVOLTA: AN EXPERIENCIAL JOURNEY THROUGH BARCELONA.

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Spanish novelist Eduardo Mendoza has recently won the 2016 Cervantes Prize for La verdad sobre el caso Savolta. It is the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honour. He has been awarded for bringing a new narrative style to Spanish fiction. The novel is about the industrial, social and economic changes the city of Barcelona saw during the 19th and 20th centuries. Since this fiction appeared to me as a classical text, this work proposes to see this novel from a Marxist perspective. Examining these novels in the light of Marxist theory facilitates a greater comprehension of the texts and enhances the understanding of Barcelona.

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[Anurag Bhagat. (2017); EDUARDO MENDOZA’S LA VERDAD SOBRE EL CASO SAVOLTA: AN EXPERIENCIAL JOURNEY THROUGH BARCELONA. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Feb). 2686-2693] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Anurag Bhagat
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3461      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3461

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