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This book analyses Carmen Martn Gaite's novels published in the 1990s. The book is particularly important for its focus on the way a persistent presence of visual elements (drawing, painting and collage) shed light on the relevance of her residence in the United States.
Spanish fiction --- History and criticism. --- Martin Gaite, Carmen --- Martín Gaite, Carmen --- Gaite, Carmen Martín --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Spanish Fiction --- Literary Criticism
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Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000) was one of the most important Spanish writers of the second half of the twentieth century. From the 1940s, until her death in 2000, she published short stories, novels, poetry, drama, children literature and cultural and historical studies. This book studies life writing in Martín Gaite's notebooks 'Cuadernos de todo' (2002) and her novels of the 1990s, 'Nubosidad variable' (1992), 'La Reina de las nieves' (1994), 'Lo raro es vivir' (1996) and 'Irse de casa' (1998). It looks at the use of first person narration in Martín Gaite's work, drawing a parallel between the notebooks and her fictional work. It further analyses the way the author's notebooks relate to the development of her later novels as well as the use of writing as therapy. This work offers a way of looking at Carmen Martín Gaite's work from a personal and intimate perspective. Maria-José Blanco López de Lerma is Lecturer in Hispanic Culture at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London.
Life. --- Authors, Spanish. --- Spanish authors --- Life --- Philosophy --- Martín Gaite, Carmen --- Gaite, Carmen Martín --- Autobiography in literature. --- Martín Gaite, Carmen. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Diaries.
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Carmen Martin Gaite produced a large body of work in various genres over the course of her five-decade career, though she is primarily known as a novelist, short story writer, and social commentator. Her work at times reflects, and at times defies, the pattern of development in Spanish fiction since the 1950s. This companion will offer a re-reading of Martin Gaite's works, emphasizing her early experimentalism which culminated in mid-career works (notably "El cuarto de atras"), and stressing how, in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the majority of Spanish novelists were engaged in a critique of history, Martin Gaite turned to the writing of cultural history, exploring its intersection with narrative fiction in a positivist rather than a nihilistic mode.Her exploration of gender issues, particularly mother-child relations, towards the end of her career anticipated new directions in feminist thought. Discussions of often-ignored works, such as poetry, drama, children's literature, and literary translations, offer insight into sidelined aspects of this writer's literary output.
Martín Gaite, Carmen --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Gaite, Carmen Martín --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese. --- Carmen Martín Gaite. --- Cultural history. --- Experimentalism. --- Feminism. --- Literary translations. --- Novelist. --- Short stories. --- Social commentary. --- Spanish literature.
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