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Carmen Laforet: A Tentative Evaluation
Hispania, 1957In the spring of 1945 Carmen Laforet's novel, Nada, winner of the Premio Nadal the previous year, took Spain by storm. Here, the critics announced, was a new writer of great promise. Of the novels published since the Civil War only Jos6 Camilo Cela's La familia de Pascual Duarte had attracted as much attention.
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Dealing with Time in Carmen Laforet’s Nada
Romance Notes, 2010At the end of Carmen Laforet's first novel, Nada, Andrea reflects on the year she spent in Barcelona: Baje la escalera despacio. Sentia una viva emocion. Recordaba la terrible esperanza, el anhelo de vida con que las habia subido por primera vez. Me marchaba ahora sin haber conocido nada de lo que confusamente esperaba: la vida en su plenitud, la ...
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The Novels of Carmen Laforet: An Aesthetics of Relief
Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 2019Most Hispanists, regardless of their area of specialization, will at some stage in their career have read Carmen Laforet’s prize-winning and much-studied novel Nada (1945).1 But not many, I would v...
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Carmen Laforet’s Nada: From Letter to Novel
Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 2016AbstractBefore she began to compose her first novel Nada, Carmen Laforet wrote many letters to friends about her experiences in Barcelona shortly after the Spanish Civil War. These letters contain the seeds of the novel and (as is argued in this article) inspired a number of epistolary features in the novel's structure and style—its first-person ...
Roberta Johnson, Israel Rolón-Barada
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Lesbian Desire and Related Matters in Carmen Laforet's Nada
Neophilologus, 2002Sexual repression is a constant theme in Nada (1945), and in the absence of any sort of traditional plot, Carmen Laforet's characters seem to be searching to define themselves socially and sexually in an atmosphere characterized by disorder. While scholars have emphasized both Laforet's use of an ambiguously constructed discourse and the overall tone ...
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Carmen Laforet, al volver la esquina
2021Paseo nocturo por la vieja ciudad. Fiestas Fundacionales 2009.
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