Memoria y camuflaje en "La muchacha de las bragas de oro" de Juan Marsé

Resumen

Recent studies on Francoism from a historiographical perspective have pointed out the need to deepen our understanding of the social support that the regime enjoyed in order to guarantee its survival for four decades. These studies point in a very clear and forceful direction: in order to understand the longevity of the Franco regime in contrast to the rest of the European fascisms that emerged in the 1930s, it is essential to understand that, beyond repression, the configuration of the so-called “society of the victors” (Fuertes, 2017) was one of the main keys that guaranteed its continuity in power beyond the European post-war period and its deep roots in Spanish society through a particular political culture that survived, with masks and camouflages, beyond the Transition. Some of the most iconic novels in Juan Marsé’s narrative production represent the tensions generated within this «society of victors». Based on the analysis of La muchacha de las bragas de oro (1978; The girl with golden knickers), this article sets out, on the one hand, to reflect on how the writer confronts the process of camouflaging the life stories linked to this society of victors in the context of the Transition and, on the other, to connect this reflection with the new paradigm of democratic memory as a framework for re-reading both this text in particular and Marsé’s literary work as a whole.