ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows how several different novelists have explored in their work themes which are intimately related to Catalonia's social and political situation in the 1970s and '80s. These themes include: the relationship between personal and national identity and the problems faced by any individual trying to define him/herself within a community; the challenges and possibilities of free self-expression after a period of enforced repression; and the role of narration in constructing or falsifying identities. It discusses the novels, there appears to be an underlying preoccupation with both individual and national transitions: not in the narrow sense of the post-1975 political transition from dictatorship to democracy. The book argues that how certain key debates regarding the past, present and future of Catalan literature have been shaped by the assumption that literature has a vital role to play in both language-planning and nation-building.
