Mujer, comercio y arte en "Troteras y danzaderas"

Abstract

Troteras y danzaderas is a novel about Bohemian artists. Pérez de Ayala depicts the world of mass spectacles in order to express his concerns about the commercialization of art at a time that commercialized theatre is the only artistic genre that produces money. At the same time, the author uses two female protagonists, a cuplé-singer and a dancer who are receptive to art and who obtain, each in her own way, a certain cultural and financial independence as performers, in order to illustrate the power of an aesthetic education to transform the individual ?and thus the masses. The author expresses his desire for aesthetic and political change, a change that should reorientate and revitalize society and thus correct Spain’s downward spiral in after the so-called Disaster