World through the Eyes of Juan Marsé

The topic of the publication is the work of the outstanding author of modern Spanish literature, Juan Marce (1933-2020) and his Georgian translations (translated by K. Jishiashvili, ed. M. Kvachantiradze). Through these texts, the Georgian reader is given the opportunity to discover the author, without whom it is difficult to imagine contemporary Spanish literature, and the publication is the first attempt to study his work in Georgian literary criticism. Among postmodern literature quests magical realism is probably the most appropriate for Marse’s work. Born in Barcelona, the writer spent most of his life in a poor district of the city and the characters of his stories belong to this world: people who have to struggle for existence, for survival every day. The publication examines the text in the context of artistic techniques typical of postmodern literature, which disposes the reader for reminiscences of the images, corresponding to this indication, pushes towards intertextual searches and forces to get involved in interaction. The publication notes that by simulating a mixture of the real and the illusory, the writer manages to make the reader his soulmate, to show how a new reality is born in the consciousness of the character, which has nothing in common with the reality a priori defined by him and which may be the closest to the truth.