However, while each text can be placed closer to one or the other conceptions, both these ideas are present to some degree in all of these narratives. The second focuses on the subject’s relation to the particular places where this global space is manifested. The first emphasizes the subject’s immersion in a global sphere of networked relations, portraying what Roland Robertson defines as a world space where “the local is merely a ‘micro’ manifestation of the global”.
Within this overall theme I delineate two general tendencies. They create hybrid fictional spaces where social practices and meaning are produced through a continuous negotiation of the physical and virtual realms. Their varied texts converge around the theme of how subjects locate themselves within a fragmented and interconnected world. I argue instead that their narrative represents an effort to assimilate global and virtual space with local and physical places. The new wave authors have been described as belonging to a new digital consciousness wholly shaped by audiovisual media and the Internet. This study portrays a broad group of writers, but it focuses on four texts: Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Nocilla Dream, Javier Calvo’s “Una belleza rusa”, Gabi Martínez’s Ático and Esther García Llovet’s Coda. Known in the press as the “Nocilla Generation”, after Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Nocilla Project trilogy, the work of these authors responds to changing relations between urban subjects, virtual spaces and local places. This thesis is the first sustained study of a new wave of Spanish writers.
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