Abstract

In Catalonia, the 1970s were the last years of Franco and the first of the new constitutional monarchy. The change from the Dictatorship to the new system of government gave rise to claims for linguistic and territorial identity, largely from the cultural centres of Barcelona, Valencia and Majorca. The writers of the age were faced with the dilemma of whether they should continue with a realistic aesthetic or move towards a more experimental narrative model. The way the City is portrayed seems to be one of the important issues in the analysis of the historical connections, the counterculture of the time, the urban geography and the links between the writer’s ideology and the collective IdentityCollective. In this regard, social Engagement consists of depicting characters who protest against the prevailing conventions and forms of religion, authoritarianism, sexism, middle-class aesthetics and all the components of the hegemonic discourse of an age and a country.