In recent years it has been recognized that Proust profoundly influences different Spanish narrators (see H. Craig, also for Latin American literature), and in this work it is shown how in the syntax, the type of narrator, the construction of the scene and other aspects in Juan Benet’s narrative show the Prustian influence.

Franz Kafka is one of the most influential writers in Spanish narrative since the post-war period, from the beginnings of the work of Carmen Martín Gaite, to Enrique Vila-Matas, one of the most widely translated and well-known current novelists.

Sara Mesa’s narratives show us that a good part of our assumptions about childhood, about innocence and new experiences, do not correspond to that stage that cannot be understood in terms of adult life. They place us before the unspeakable, before the limitations of our thinking of an enigmatic other that seemed easy to understand.