Irony, the Grotesque, and the Dialectics of Reading in Luis Martín-Santos'sTiempo de silencio

Psychoanalysing the Nation. A Comparative Reading of António Lobo Antunes’Memória de elefante and Luis Martín‐Santos’s Tiempo de silencio

“…6 6 Like Lobo Antunes, Martín‐Santos was a psychiatrist by training, and his novel reflects his perhaps more profoundly developed philosophical and medical interests. For an analysis of that novel from the same perspective as that adopted here towards Memória de elefante , see Ribeiro de Menezes (2002). …”