Eine Annäherung an das literarische Werk von Guillem Frontera

Abstract

The Majorcan novelist and journalist Guillem Frontera (1945) belongs to the numerous island
storytellers who started in the literary world at the end of the 1960’s and who were grouped
under the label of the so-called “Generation of the Seventies”. A fruitful author from his
beginnings, faithful to committed literature, Frontera has always stood out for reflecting in
his work the socio-economic and ethical transformations experienced by the various
Majorcan social classes due to the tourist boom.
However, his last published novel, Un cor massa madur (1993), is a much more personal and
suggestive narrative where the author shows a growing interest in more universal themes
such as human relationships, the inability to communicate, the recovery of the past, etc., all
immersed in the contemporary Majorcan microcosm. Here, the writer shows the evolution of
social changes from a perspective that no longer pretends to be denunciatory or vindictive but
subjective, assuming the weaknesses, aspirations and limitations of the human being,
embodied, among others, by the novelist waiting for the inspiration to write the novel that has
been dragging in his mind since his youth.
In this article, a thematic systematization of the novelistic corpus of Frontera is undertaken
and special light is shed on Un cor massa madur, a work that could qualify as one of the best
Majorcan novels of the late 20th century.