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An exploration of Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite's religious outlook through the inner journeys of five female characters.For Martín Gaite, a truly religious, or spiritual, perspective requires conscious attention to the products of the unconscious (dreams, images, memories, premonitions), followed by reflection and action, as well as a similar attentiveness and responsiveness to external events both large and small. This reconnection of the supernatural and day-to-day worlds also involves descent to the unconscious - the way to wholeness - as depicted in so many myths and fairy tales, including those which Martín Gaite used to retell or enhance the works analysed in this book: Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Amor and Psyche, Demeter and Persephone, and the Descent of the Goddess Inanna.Looking at the extent to which these female characters attend to, reflect on, and respond to their dreams, images, memories and events, the analysis suggests that Martín Gaite uses her stories to try to communicate both the road to her own enlightenment and warnings about paths that lead away from this.

Romance Literature --- Literature, modern --- Jungian psychology --- Literary criticism --- Psychology --- Religion in literature. --- Martín Gaite, Carmen --- Martín Gaite, Carmen. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Martín-Gaite, Carmen --- Experimental fiction --- Roman expérimental --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Martín Gaite, Carmen --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Roman expérimental --- Martín Gaite, Carmen

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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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Autobiographical fiction, Spanish --- Spanish fiction --- Autobiography in literature --- Roman autobiographique espagnol --- Roman espagnol --- Autobiographie dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Unamuno, Miguel de, --- Martín Gaite, Carmen --- Semprún, Jorge --- History and criticism. --- Autobiographie dans la littérature --- Martín Gaite, Carmen --- Semprún, Jorge --- Autobiographical fiction, Spanish - History and criticism. --- Spanish fiction - 20th century - History and criticism.