Time of Silence

…1962 he published his novel Tiempo de silencio (“Time of Silence”), the first of a projected trilogy. The novel is about a medical student, Pedro, thrust among inhabitants of the Madrid slums and confronted with their often violent adaptation to severe conditions. Events force him to confess to a crime…

…epoch-making Tiempo de silencio (1962; Time of Silence), which revisited the familiar topic of life in post-Civil War Spain via conscious artistry, psychoanalytic perspectives, and narrative techniques—such as stream of consciousness and interior monologue—that echoed James Joyce. Had Martín-Santos not died at age 39, Spanish fiction in the 1970s and…