Inversión de las relaciones individuo-sociedad: La fórmula irónica de Beryl Bainbridge.

Abstract

The novels of Beryl Bainbridge do not simply convey the tragedy and ironies of life and the shortcomings of human beings and culture, but also work in more intricate ways to make the reader aware of the complexity of perceptions of reality. The pessimistic quality which is conveyed through suffering, frustration and misfortune is balanced by the implicit indications of the possibility of changes; there is no solution offered to the problem of the actual as entrapment, separation or isolation, but there is a suggestion that the ideal seen as collective interdependency and transcendence would serve as a more beneficia! mediation of contradictions, tuming entrapment into acceptance of dependency and separation into accepted independency.