Demythification of Romantic Love in the West: An Analysis of Little Narratives in José Luis Sampedro’s <em>El Amante Lesbiano</em>

The present thesis deals with the intended abandonment of traditional notions of Romantic love in some manifestations of Western literature. The novel analyzed is José Luis Sampedro’s El Amante Lesbiano, where concepts such as gender roles, marriage, and sexuality have been removed from their conventionalities in favour of love. The thesis provides two points of analysis concernin…