De la "madonna primaveral" a la "nueva Eva"representaciones de la mujer en la novela erótica de principios de siglo

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The success of erotic fiction is one of the most interesting phenomena in the first third of twentieth-century Spanish literature. The erotic novels of that period discredit the moral system then prevailing and propose a new and more natural sexual ethic. Simultaneously, they popularise a different kind of heroines who maximises the urge for sexual transgression only hinted by their predecessors, the female characters of literary Modernism. Thus, novelists such as Carreteri, Retana, Belda, Mata, Insúa and many others present female characters who personify erotic perversion and embody lust, but at the same time are unable to free themselves from mate domination. Sometimes they are even displayed as childish androgynous heroines with morbid and violent relations in which pornography plays a paramount role. On the contrary, Felipe Trigo's novels offers a utopian view of lave which includes sexual education for women, but also an innovative conception of sensuality, of the female body and, finally, of Utter Love as the supreme fulfilment of the human being.