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0ne of the most solid objectives of this research is to prove that literature in Catalan, despite its smallness and marginality, is capable of producing quality historical novels within the context of the European and international narrative. Novels capable of setting up a dialogue with the specific historical genre and with the international narrative of its time, within the cultural current that belongs to it, that of postmodernity. Having said that, in this thesis we proposed four main analytical objectives. The first of them was to study which common elements of the postmodern narrative appear in the chosen novels and what use the authors make of them. A second common feature of postmodernity, seen in our research, is parody and imitation as a source of dialogue with the reader. This resource is common in postmodern novels. The purpose is to play with the cultural references of the reader to whom it is addressed. Intertextuality in novels is another feature we have studied. The author's intention when making use of that intertextuality is to create a complex network of original texts in order to capture reality, which, by definition, is complex. The approach to this reality is textual, therefore linguistic. The hybridization of genres and the dialogue with the History are constant in contemporary narrative and we have studied them in the three novels analyzed: Crim de Germania, Borja Papa and 1969. The fusion of elements, the challenges to traditional classifications and the experimentation are marks of narrative and experimental postmodernity, that are found in these novels. Finally, we have studied the epistemic conditioning entailed by the fact that they are written in Catalan, two of them with the Valencian variant.