Spain as a Woman: Arturo Pérez-Reverte and His Female Proposal to Subvert the Failure of the Spanish Nation
Spain as a Woman: Arturo Pérez-Reverte and His Female Proposal to Subvert the Failure of the Spanish Nation

Summary/Abstract: Spanish contemporary literature reveals a close relationship between the Spanish nation-building process and the narrative description of women as a metaphor of this. Following this trend, the Spanish novelist Arturo Pérez-Reverte epitomizes in the female characters of his recent best-seller El asedio (2010) the complexity of the Spanish national identity. As an alternative to the historical male nation, Pérez-Reverte introduces Lolita as a subversive factor so as to disrupt the eternal recurrence to failure of the Spanish nation-building process. Thus, the success of the nation depends on the success of a woman in transgressing the defective male-like Spain.

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