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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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Trauma and Catholicism in Carmen Laforet's Work
Hispanic Research Journal, 2011AbstractRepressed trauma and psychological fragmentation denote a significant pattern in Carmen Laforet's novels, in which violence 'that threatens the integrity of the body and compromises the sense of mastery that aggregates around western notions of harmonious selfhood' (Henke, 2000: xii) produces 'shattered subjects' (Henke, 2000: xii), such as the
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Carmen Laforet, al volver la esquina
2021Paseo nocturo por la vieja ciudad. Fiestas Fundacionales 2009.
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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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Nada by Carmen Laforet: A Venture in Mechanistic Dynamics
Hispania, 1952A prominent aspect of the contemporary Spanish novel is the heavy atmosphere of dispiritment concerning man's place in the world.* Speaking in broad terms, we may say that a favorite subject among the novelists is man's lostness and his separation from the familiar associations and values in which he once had anchorage. In this respect, Spanish writers
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