Daniel Arrieta    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of Hispanic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Associate Professor
Language	Spanish
Publication Date	2013/12
Type	Book(s)
Title	Amados's and Marse's Captains: Orphans' laughs and Young Delinquents' invented Stories
Contribution Type	Single author
Journal Type	Another Country
Publisher	In Jorge Amado. Re-reading in his 100 Anniversary. Brazilian Studies Center-University of Salamanca
Volume, Issue, Page	pp.131-141
Total page number	11
Details	Jorge Amado and Juan Marsé share a few elements which constitute their respective childhoods, although in distant locations and different historical contexts: the Brazilian Bahia of the 1920’s and the Spanish post-war Barcelona. Both of them show in their novels society’s moral degradation as far as children are concerned. This paper will try to confront Capitães da Areia’s (1937) allegorical and almost mythical structure with the Catalonian microcosm of Si te dicen que caí (1973), focusing on the coincidences between them and studying the various narrative mechanisms used by each author.