Andrés Ibáñez o la novela española posmoderna

Abstract

Out of the Spanish novels published between 1980 and 2000, there is quite an extensive collection that deal with specific aspects of the consequences about the postmodern episteme in Spanish narrative in a more or less partial way: the deconstruction of ego and reality, the end of lineal time and history, the intertextual irony and parody, the end of utopia, the pastiche as structural tool... Nevertheless, the complete demonstration of all that can be theoretically described as Spanish postmodern novel can be found in Andrés Ibáñez’s texts: La música del mundo o El efecto Montoliu (1995) and El mundo en la era de Varick (1999). In these novels, Andrés Ibáñez proposes a new way of perceiving reality that takes on and surpasses the logical-rational outlines of Modernism: the look of Postmodernism.