Un cambio de paradigma en la novela de la memoria. Sobre El vano ayer (2004) y ¡Otra maldita novela sobre la guerra civil! (2007) de Isaac Rosa

The novels El vano ayer (2004) and ¡Otra maldita novela sobre la guerra civil! (2007) by Isaac Rosa, are two prime examples of "the performative turn" that has occurred in the last decade in the novels on the topic of Spanish traumatic memory (civil war, Franco and, increasingly, transition to democracy). If in the eighties and nineties it was important the problematics of "memory recovery", the success of novels about these periods has enabled and made necessary a change of perspective. If we can speak referring to El vano ayer of a "novel of suspicion" that warns against the cliches that were beginning to fossilize in novels of this subject, and that are fought through the multitude of perspectives, the ongoing calls to the reader, intertextuality, the interweaving of genres and a thorough work on the language, in ¡Otra maldita novela sobre la guerra civil! (2007), we are given the relentless "critical reading" an anonymous reader has had on Rosas's novel La malamemoria (1999), fully registered in the previous paradigm. While both novels show this performative turn of the "semiotics of memory" (Winter), Isaac Rosa uses the tradition of critical novels which widened the genre boundaries, such as those by Luis Martín Santos, Juan and Luis Goytisolo or Miguel Espinosa.