Acceso usuarios
Miguel Martinón 
Two formal and very general aspects which condition and organize either the fiction and the narration stand out in the novel Beatus ille by the Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina. On one hand, the main plot follows the pattern of the detective-story genre. During his stay in Mágina in 1969, the main character, Minaya, a young anti-Franco student, becomes more and more interested in the past of Manuel, his uncle, and Jacinto Solana, a friend of his uncle’s in the years of the Spanish Civil War. The more his interest in these two men grows, the more he gets involved in their past, to the extent of his merging with the recent history of Spain. On the other hand, an outstanding formal aspect in Beatus ille is that the narration is made from the standpoint of a character of the fiction whose identity is not known until the novel is close to its end. This narrative strategy accounts for the paralelism between Solana and Minaya, the backbone which provides support for the various esential components of the fiction and even for the mythpoietic dimension of such components.
