Identity, fragmentation, fiction, and television. An approach to "Daniela Astor y la caja negra"'s narrative monstrosity

Abstract

Daniela Astor y la caja negra is an exercise of historical fiction which aims to rebuild the feminine memory of the Spanish Transition. Reading this literary text allows us to picture the narrator, who is also the main character of the novel, by intertwining two fragmentary narratives. Catalina H. Griñán is the teller of a transcendent childhood remembrance, as well as the director of a documentary composed of a hectic succession of images and anecdotes about the Destape muses. This paper presents a theoretical reflection upon Marta Sanz’s text, taking as a departure concepts such as identity, fragment and memory and suggesting some interpretive keys.