Christine Henseler
José Ángel Mañas, Ray Loriga, and Lucia Etxebarria have been turned into prototypes for a generation that has been denounced for selling out to the market and for buying into the promotional gimmicks of a publishing industry supposedly mare interested in promoting best-sellers than a disseminating "high" literary value. Mañas, Loriga, and Etxebarria subvert this sweeping over-generalization by screaming for a redefinition of literary style. In their novels as well as in newspaper articles, reviews and interviews these three writers define and defend Themselves as punk, rock and roll, and pop writers who defy literary expectations with their unconventional narrative styles and appearances and who embrace commercial consumption leas as a passing literary fad than to unsettle the superiority of the written word.