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Catherine O'Leary,Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
A comprehensive examination of the full range of Carmen Martin Gaite’s work.
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Adriaan M. Garcaia
This book explores how silences in Carmen Martin Gaite’s novels affect narrative communication and the reader. Focusing on Entre visillos (1957), El cuarto de atras (1978), and Nubosidad variable (1992)…
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The career of Spain’s celebrated author Carmen Martin Gaite spanned the Spanish Civil War, Franco’s dictatorship, and the nation’s transition to democracy. She wrote fiction, poetry, drama, screenplays for television…
Joan L. Brown
Explores the last six novels by Spains most honoured contemporary woman writer. Its scholarship is enriched by the voice of Calila herself - as Brown called MartIn Gaite, who was…
Carmen Martin Gaite
Sofia and Mariana were friends at school. Sofia was trapped as housewife and Mariana became a psychiatrist. After years a party reunites them and it causes them an inner revolution…
An impassioned correspondence between two former school friends as they reach crisis in middle age, from the prize-winning Spanish novelist Carmen Martin Gaite Sofia is a mother of three grown-up…
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A Proustian journey into the interior, a dazzling psychodrama and, arguably, one of the best novels out of Spain in recent decades Kirkus Reviews On the day he is released…
Leonardo Villalba, just released from prison, tries to get his life in order. He encounters the figure of his dead father and stumbles on a puzzle: who is the mysterious…
Amparo Miranda, a successful fashion designer that lives in New York, returns to the city she left forty years ago. She hasnt returned for nostalgia, nor to show her triumphs…
A 35-year-old woman who has lived hard and loved hard, has just lost her mother. Struggling to keep her curiosity about an inexplicable world intact, she finds her precarious equilibrium…
Beyond the Back Room
Linda E. Chown
First published in 1990, this book assesses a shift in the presentation of self-consciousness in 2 pairs of novels by Doris Lessing and Carmen Martin Gaite: 1) The Summer Before…
Dr Anne-Marie Storrs
An exploration of Spanish writer Carmen Martin Gaite's religious outlook through the inner journeys of five female characters.
Anne-Marie Storrs
This ground-breaking volume argues that Carmen Martin Gaite and Carl Jung form an ideal combination. All the features of the Jungian individuation process are present in the Spanish writer’s fairy…
In the middle of the night, a woman awakens to find a stranger in her bedroom. Though she cannot determine who he is, or whether he is indeed real, she…
In this book Spanish author Carmen Martin Gaite eloquently describes how principles and policies of the Franco regime, particularly in the early postwar years (1940-1950s), manipulated the behavior of an…
Traces the lives of several young women growing up in a provincial Spanish town during Franco’s authoritarian rule
Guadalupe Maria Cabedo Ph D
La literatura espanola de posguerra ya se ha analizado mucho, y afortunadamente bastantes de las previamente olvidadas escritoras de posguerra se han ido recuperando y estudiando. Sin embargo, todavia queda…
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