The Narrative of Antonio Munoz Molina: Self-Conscious Realism and El Desencanto provides an in-depth study of Antonio Munoz Molina’s narrative production from 1982 to 1995 with a critical focus on narratology, metafiction, reader response, intertextuality, and the fictive autobiography. Munoz Molina’s adaptations of such genres as the detective story, the feuilleton and the (auto)biography are presented as conforming a self-conscious realism that reflects the epistemological uncertainty and moral ambiguity characteristic of Spain’s post-Franco desencanto.