El amor y la diferencia de edad en la novela juvenil Un poco de abril, algo de mayo, todo septiembre de Jordi Sierra i Fabra

Abstract

Love is omnipresent in life. Love, with age difference, is found in Jordi Sierra i Fabra’s novel Un poco de abril, algo de mayo, todo septiembre. The purpose includes investigating the theme love in youth literature in a heterosexual, young adult relationship with an age difference by studying the descriptions of love in the mentioned novel. This requires analysing the circumstances producing the love-related actions and whether they satisfy the age difference requirement in the mentioned relationship. The following question is the foundation of the study: How does the novel Un poco de abril, algo de mayo, todo septiembre describe love and its observed characteristics for the novel’s protagonists when there is an age difference between them? The method used is a comparative analysis of the protagonists. The results reveal that age difference does not limit love. However, prejudices exist. The dominating love characteristics observed in the protagonists’ relation are nervousness and rationality. Found among the results are also the myth of “love at first sight”.