Abstract:

This paper analyzes a series of post-modern issues being studied very little or not at all regarding the literary work of the essay and novel writer Juan Benet (1927-1993). His interest in minorities is studied as well as his rejection of the value of progress, his globalized use of English, his tendency to fragmentism, "kitsch", "pastiche" and "collage", his notion of "distopia" and "heterotopia", a deconstructed dichotomy between reason and passion, his rejection of teleological knowledge systems, his tendency to show sexuality without pure love, morbid and violent, and a general violence towards women in particular.

The paper is original and stems from a research Project about the Works of Juan Benet in the face of post-modernism, the irrational and the intertextual.

Key words:  Juan Benet; contemporary Spanish literature; narrative; essay.