胡安·马塞

胡安·马塞·卡尔沃（西班牙语：Juan Marsé Carbó，1933年1月8日—2020年7月18日），西班牙小说家，“50年一代”的成员。他3岁时母亲去世后，马塞没有完成学业，便成为珠宝学徒，后又为一家电影杂志写稿。1958年他开始了文学生涯，一年后他移居巴黎，并在那里度过3年。1962年回归故乡，在撰写小说的同事也写过电影剧本，并涉足广告业和新闻业。他1966年结婚，1980年代曾为《国家报》写稿。2008年，获塞万提斯奖。

马塞的主要作品有小说《仅有一件玩具的幽闭生活》（1961）、《与特雷莎的最后日子》（1966）、《如果说我跌倒》（1973）、《金内裤姑娘》（1978）等。其名作《上海幻梦》（1993）讲述一位逃避现实的主人公的故事，曾改编为电影。马塞的许多作品记录弗朗哥时期巴塞罗那地区的历史，分析了战争的道德、社会状况的恶化、阶级差别、工人和资产阶级的冲突，失去了童年的记忆，其作品多用社会现实主义的笔法，也有时夹杂先锋派的风格，并带有讽刺性。

Juan Marsé Carbó (8 January 1933 – 18 July 2020) was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who used Spanish as his literary language. In 2008, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, "the Spanish-language equivalent" to the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Biography

Marsé was born Juan Faneca Roca in Barcelona. His mother died in childbirth, and he was soon adopted by the Marsé family, taking the name Juan Marsé Carbó.

At age 14, without finishing his studies, Marsé began to work as a jewelry apprentice. He spent some time working in the Barcelonès magazine Arcinema, and began his literary career in 1958 with some stories that appeared in 'Insula' and 'El Ciervo' magazines. His story, "Nada para morir", won the Sésamo Prize, and in 1958 he published his first novel, Encerrados con un solo juguete (Locked Up With a Single Toy), which was a finalist of the Biblioteca Breve Seix Barral Prize.

Afterwards, he spent two years in Paris working as a garçon de laboratoire at the Pasteur Institute and translating screenplays and teaching Spanish. Back in Spain he wrote Esta cara de la luna (This Side of the Moon), which was repudiated and never included in his complete works. In 1965 he won the Biblioteca Breve Prize with Últimas tardes con Teresa (Last Evenings with Teresa).

He married Joaquina Hoyas and began working in advertising and writing dialogues for films. He wrote La oscura historia de la prima Montse (The Dark Story of Cousin Montse), which was not very successful, and Si te dicen que caí (If They Tell You I Fell), based on the murder of Carmen Broto. The latter was published in Mexico due to Francoist censorship and won the Novel International Prize.

In 1974, he started a column in the magazine Por Favor while continuing writing for the film industry. His novel La muchacha de las bragas de oro (Girl with Golden Panties) won the Planeta Prize in 1978, which made him known to the general public.

He wrote two novels about post-war Barcelona, Un día volveré (One Day I'll Come Back) and Ronda del Guinardó, followed by the collection of short stories, Teniente Bravo.

In the 1990s, he received numerous prizes, including the Ateneo de Sevilla Prize for El amante bilingüe (The Bilingual Lover) and the Critic Prize and Aristeion Prize for El embrujo de Shanghai (The Shanghai Spell). In 1997 he was awarded the Juan Rulfo Prize for Latin American and Caribbean Literature. After seven years of silence he published Rabos de Lagartija (Lizards' Tails), which won the Critic Prize and Narrative National Prize. Marsé was the winner of the 2008 Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious award for Spanish-language literature.

MacLehose Press published The Calligraphy of Dreams in 2014.

Marsé died on 18 July 2020.

Works

Narrative

Encerrados con un solo juguete (1960, Seix Barral)

Esta cara de la luna (1962, Seix Barral)

Últimas tardes con Teresa (1966, Seix Barral), Premio Biblioteca Breve

La oscura historia de la prima Montse (novela) (1970, Seix Barral)

Si te dicen que caí (novela) (1973, Editorial Novaro)

La muchacha de las bragas de oro (novela) (1978, Planeta), Premio Planeta

Un día volveré (1982, Plaza y Janés)

Ronda del Guinardó (1984, Plaza y Janés),

El amante bilingüe (1990, Editorial Planeta)

El embrujo de Shanghai (novela) (1993, Plaza y Janés)

Rabos de lagartija (2000, Plaza y Janés)

Canciones de amor en Lolita's Club (2005, Lumen)

Caligrafía de los sueños (2011, Lumen)

Noticias felices en aviones de papel (2014, Lumen)

Esa puta tan distinguida (2016, Lumen)

Viaje al sur (2020, Lumen) (phostumous)

Short story

Teniente Bravo (1987, Plaza y Janés)

Cuentos completos (2002, colección Austral, Espasa).

Film adaptations

The Dark History of Cousin Montse (Jordi Cadena, 1977)

Girl with the Golden Panties (Vicente Aranda, 1980)

Last Evenings with Teresa (Gonzalo Herralde, 1984)

If you say that I fell (Vicente Aranda, 1989)

The Bilingual Lover (Vicente Aranda, 1993)

Domenica – adapted from Ronda del Guinardó (Wilma Labate, 2001)

The Shanghai Spell (Fernando Trueba, 2002)

Lolita's Club (Vicente Aranda, 2007)