La Transición contada por ellas: el caso de El asesino tímido (2019) de Clara Usón.

In El asesino tímido Clara Usón introduces an account of the last years of the Franco dictatorship and the beginning of the Transition. The account intertwines the author's autobiographical memories with the narrator's personal identification with the figure of Sandra Mozarowsky, an actress in "destape" films and the king's rumored lover who died in strange circumstances, in order to establish a vision of historical memory determined by gender. This vision complements the recent critical turn against the triumphalist narrative of the Transition, the "Regime of 78," as well as its supposedly transgressive official culture. By means of her story, the author denounces the limits of the masculine philosophical tradition of suicide and comments on the failure of the legal and political structures of the early democratic system to guarantee the end of Francoist repression. In doing so, she underlines the contribution to change made by women born during the dictatorship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]