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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.