THE SHORTAGE OF TOYS": A LOOK AT JUAN MARSÉ'S SI TE DICEN QUE CAÍ

Abstract

This study is part of a more ample work entitled "The discussion on literature of exposure of the 1950s generation. Juan José Manauta (Argentina)  and Juan Marsé (Spain): a comparative reading of  two novels" located in the faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences of the Universidad Autónoma  de Entre Ríos (UADER). The objective of this article is the analysis of games and toys of the children who are the protagonists  of If they tellyou I fe!! (1973) by Juan Marsé or rather, as said by one of the characters,  "tbe scarcity of toys" (Marsé, 1989:  23) and  to  think  of its  significance  in  the  narrative  world  of the  Spanish  novelist. The idea  is to think if children are a mirror  of what they perceive from adults or if, on the contrary, they become a form of resistance.