The first part of the thesis brings a brief overview of the development of thought on the relationship between reality and fiction, history and literature, and explains how they are reflected in the (new) historical novel, whose characteristics are also presented. We offer a general insight into the presence of the topic of the Spanish Civil War in the contemporary Spanish novel and relate it to the notion of postmemory. Afterwards, we explain the literary-theoretical concepts relevant to the posterior analysis of the category of narrator in Almudena Grandes' historical novel. The analysis shows that the specific narrative frame of the novel, together with other narrative techniques, serves to reconstruct historical memory.
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