Las edades de Lulú: un análisis del erotismo en el lenguaje femenino

Abstract

In this paper we briefly expose the erotic characteristics that are generally associated to women’s discourse through the analysis of Las edades de Lulú, Almudena Grandes’ first novel, which belongs to the erotic genre and was awarded with La sonrisa vertical prize. We have based our studies on Pilar García Moutón’s Cómo hablan las mujeres and on Ángel Lopéz and Ricardo Morant’s Gramática femenina. This paper is then organized like this: firstly, we provided a brief historical context in which we describe woman’s access to the word. Then we wrote some lines about the author of Las edades de Lulú, whose features are extremely necessary to be taken into consideration since the neat issue deals with them. Thirdly, we make a comparative-contrastive analysis of the vocabulary, especially the characteristics that are associated with women’s discourse and that can be appreciated in the narrative. Finally, we wrote a brief conclusion about what we have exposed. We conclude that female discourse, differently from male discourse in many aspects, is extremely important in deep analytical studies as this one, when the issue is eroticism in contemporary literature.