Daniel Arrieta    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of Hispanic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Associate Professor
Date	2012/10/30
Presentation Theme	Amado's and Marse's Captains: Orphans' Laughs and Delinquents' Stories
Conference	Symposium Jorge Amado in his 100 aniversary
Promoters	Center for Brazilian Studies, University of Salamanca
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Individual
Venue	Salamanca, Spain
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.