Mi casa en sus espejos: refracciones de Carlos Barral y su botiga de Calafell en La muchacha de las bragas de oro de Juan Marsé

The novel "La muchacha de las bragas de oro" (1978) by Juan Marsé was written as a reaction to the book "Descargo de conciencia (1930-1960)" (1976) by Pedro Laín Entralgo. Because of that, the author created the character of Luys Forest, a Falangist who tries to manipulate his past. If, on the one hand, Forest shares his ideology with Laín Entralgo, on the other hand he shows various traits of Carlos Barral and lives in an environment, that of Calafell, absolutely familiar to the editor. In fact, when analysing the memoirs of Barral, his complete poetry and his diaries, it is possible to find out conspicuous traces of his presence in the novelist’s text that reveal some characteristics of Marsé’s writing and also their intellectual affinity.