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Abstract Following several decades during which Peninsular narratives have steered away from confronting the most conflictive aspects of contemporary history, the last few years have witnessed the emergence of a new type of realism, one that is both testimonial and committed. Owing an evident debt to the realist literature of the second half of the Nineteenth Century, it focuses on the task of portraying the dialectic between the individual and the social stresses that Spain is experiencing today. Taking as its primary point of reference Marta Sanz's 2003 novel Animales domésticos (Domestic Animals), and the work that inspired it, Benito Pérez Galdós' Miau (1888), this article identifies and examines the fundamental characteristics of this new tendency, in both its ethical and aesthetic dimensions, exploring the connections and fissures between it and its nineteenth-century precursor.

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