The limitations of the Spanish novel in the last forty years. From media splendor to the COVID-19 crisis.

Abstract

Since the 1980s, people have been talking about the crisis of the Spanish novel after the splendor

and narrative beauty of the Spanish-American boom, which gave so much literary glory to the so-
called new continent and which European readers enjoyed with authors like Cortázar, García

Márquez, Borges and Octavio Paz, among others. In this study, which is part of an extensive
investigation that is being carried out, the aim is to demystify the literary quality that has been given
to the narrative originating in the Peninsula when in reality it became a literary object of little value
but with a resounding marketing, as has been the case of the works born in the Planeta Prize or even
in the Nadal in recent years. The objective of this article is to explain where it has come to and why
the youngest currently presume to create a hybrid novel where narrative, philosophy, essays in
general and even poetry have a place. The research question that is asked in this article is where has
it come to, the zero degree of narrative creation that drives an artificial hybridization and that breaks
the foundations of a classic structure that seems to have come to an end? In conclusion, what has
happened to the glitter-painted Spanish novel could have been infected by COVID-19, which has
exhausted it from so much exploitation.