Mavis Galant - A Novel About the Past and the Present

Mavis Galant wanted to stress how different Spain was in the 50s than it is now. There's a great line in the story that just makes me laugh, where the narrator refers to her own character as being ill-defined. In a sense it sort of Mavis Galant breaking in and saying, I haven't written this character very clearly or I don't quite have a sense of this character. It's an interesting dramatic tableau about the story itself by the end.