Connecting three points of development of modern Hispanic and French literature

This thesis studies the connections and/or relationships occurring within literature written in both Spanish and French at three points of development of modern literature during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I will begin with an analysis of the development of Spanish American modernismo - a movement considered the first literary movement to originate in Spanish America towards the end of the nineteenth century and its connections with French parnassianism and symbolism, two literary schools deemed influential to the development of modernismo. Next I will focus on the development of European avant-garde movements in France and Spain and its transcontinental links to Spanish America. The final focus will be on finding connections between French existentialism and the tremendismo movement in the Spain, concentrating on the Spanish novel La familia de Pascual Duarte by Camilo Jose Cela and L'Etranger by Albert Camus.