Carmen Martín Gaite

Llega a bolsillo la novela de Carmen Mart n Gaite por la que fue finalista del Premio Biblioteca Breve. David Fuentes narra su propia autobiograf a desde el manicomio. Desde ah reflexiona sobre su empe o en mantenerse fiel a sus valores, a su ideal ut pico de libertad absoluta, a pesar de que para ello tenga que sacrificar a su familia, el amor o la amistad, en una sociedad que transita entre el conservadurismo y una nueva corriente pragm tica y consumista. El destino de David es voluntariamente tr gico y, as , inicia un camino que no tiene retorno. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Now on paperback, the novel that made Carmen Mart n Gaite finalist for the Biblioteca Breve Award. David Fuentes narrates his own autobiography from a mental hospital. There he reflects on his efforts to remain faithful to his values, to his utopic ideal of absolute freedom, despite the fact that, to do son, he must sacrifice family, love, or friendship, in a society that moves between conservatism and a new pragmatic and consumerist flow. David's fate is voluntarily tragic, thus beginning a path of no return.

Siete relatos sobre el sometimiento social, familiar o econ mico de la vida cotidiana, escritos por Carmen Mart n Gaite, una de las figuras m s importantes de las letras hisp nicas del siglo XX. «Las verdaderas ataduras son las que uno escoge, las que se busca y se pone uno solo, pudiendo no tenerlas . Adem s de la narraci n principal, que da t tulo a la obra, el libro hom nimo de Carmen Mart n Gaite incluye otros seis relatos que exploran los conflictos de identidad, as como las complejidades de las relaciones humanas; especialmente desde la perspectiva de las mujeres en la Espa a de mediados del siglo XX. Estos cuentos ofrecen una visi nprofunda y psicol gica de los v nculos emocionales y sociales, vistos a trav s de la capacidad narrativa de la autora para "bucear en el interior de sus personajes femeninos" para explorar temas como la libertad, la identidad y la incomunicaci n. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Seven stories about social, family, and financial submission in everyday life, written by Carmen Mart n Gaite, one of the most important figures in Spanish literature in the twentieth century. "The real ties are the ones you choose, the ones you seek, and the ones you put on yourself, which you could have not." Besides the primary story that gives this work its name, Carmen Mart n Gaite's book of the same name includes six other tales that explore conflicts of identity, as well as complexities in human relations, specially from a female perspective in mid-twentieth-century Spain. These short stories offer a deep and psychological perspective of emotional and social ties, seen through the author's narrative mastery to "dive into her female characters" and explore topics like freedom, identity, and isolation.

El cuarto de atr s, Premio Nacional de Narrativa en 1978, es un libro de memorias, un ensayo literario y una novela hilvanada de relatos, nacidos de una larga e ntima conversaci n de la autora consigo misma. Durante una noche desapacible de insomnio, C, la escritora protagonista de esta historia (alter ego de la propia Carmen Mart n Gaite), recibe la visita de un misterioso desconocido con el que mantendr una larga conversaci n en el cuarto de atr s de la vivienda. En ese di logo, la autora comparte recuerdos de infancia y de juventud, as como personales reflexiones acerca del oficio de escribir, la opresiva condici n de ser mujer en la Espa a de posguerra o sus ideas acerca de la memoria, el amor y la b squeda de la identidad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The Back Room, winner of the National Narrative Prize in 1978, is at once a memoir, a literary essay, and a novel woven from stories born out of a long and intimate conversation the author holds with herself. On a bleak, sleepless night, C, the writer who narrates this story (the alter ego of Carmen Mart n Gaite herself), receives a visit from a mysterious stranger with whom she engages in a long conversation in the back room of her home. Throughout this dialogue, the author shares childhood and youth memories, as well as personal reflections on the craft of writing, the oppressive condition of being a woman in postwar Spain, and her thoughts on memory, love, and the search for identity.

Una novela acerca de la b squeda de la libertad femenina que llev a Carmen Mart n Gaite a convertirse en un cl sico de la literatura del siglo XX. No le contest ni que s ni que no. Segu dici ndole adi s con la mano, hasta que la vi pararse en el l mite del and n, sin dejar de mirarme. Se le ca an las l grimas. Entre visillos (Premio Nadal 1957) retrata el ambiente, el conservadurismo y la hipocres a que subyace en una ciudad de provincias espa ola de mediados del siglo pasado. Las conversaciones aparentemente banales entre las j venes protagonistas de esta novela nos ir n dando a conocer sus angustias, su miedo a quedarse solteras, la monoton a de sus vidas, sus paseos y primeros novios, los bailes en el casino y esa tristeza que se oculta tras el aburrimiento y la falta de imaginaci n. La llegada del nuevo y atractivo profesor de alem n provocar en las protagonistas el deseo de liberarse del conformismo y de esa atm sfera opresiva. A novel about the search for female freedom that turned Carmen Mart n Gaite into a twentieth-century literary classic. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION I didn't say yes or no. I kept waving goodbye until I saw her standing on the end of the platform--her eyes never left me. She was crying. Behind the Curtains (Nadal Prize 1957) portrays the environment, the conservatism, the undergoing hypocrisy in a city of the Spanish countryside, in the mid-twentieth century. The apparently banal conversations among the young protagonists show us their anguish, their fear of being single, the monotony of their lives, their walks and their first boyfriends, the dances at the casino, and that sadness concealed behind boredom and a lack of imagination. The arrival of a new and attractive German professor will result in their wish to break free from conformism and that oppressive atmosphere.

Este libro re ne todos los cuentos de una de las escritoras m s importantes de la literatura espa ola del siglo XX, un g nero que cultiv desde el inicio hasta el final de su vida, y que le sirvi para explorar la extra eza y el inconformismo ante lo cotidiano. Todos los cuentos de Carmen Mart n Gaite, desde su primera juventud hasta los ltimos a os de su vida. Todos los cuentos de una de las escritoras m s importantes de la literatura espa ola del siglo XX. «El cuento fue un g nero decisivo en la formaci n de la escritora salmantina, y lo cultiv , con mayor o menor intermitencia, a lo largo de toda su singladura. El hilo de continuidad de su narrativa breve fue la extra eza ante lo cotidiano. El cuento respondi a su amor por todo lo inaprensible, por atender a un trozo de vida irrelevante y por explorarlo demoradamente ...] Fue sin duda un formato propicio por su brevedad para recoger, a trav s de la t cnica del apunte impresionista, el tono menor de la existencia, ese material min sculo, fragmentario y en continua mudanza al que cuadran mal las nociones de principio y final . --Jos Teruel ENGLISH DESCRIPTION This book contains every short story by one of the most important writers in twentieth-century Spanish literature, a genre she cultivated all her life, from beginning to end, and which allowed her to explore the peculiarity and inconformity in the face of the ordinary. Carmen Mart n Gaite's short stories, from her first youth to the last years of her life. Every story by one of the most important writers in twentieth century Spanish literature. "Short fiction was a decisive genre in the training of this writer from Salamanca, and she cultivated it, with greater or lesser intermittency, throughout her entire voyage. The thread of continuity in her short stories was the strangeness of the ordinary. Storytelling answered her love for everything elusive, for addressing a part of life that is irrelevant, and for slowly exploring it... It was without a doubt a favorable format, because of it's briefness, to retrieve, through a technique of impressionist notes, the minor tone of existence, that minuscule material, fragmentary and in continuous move, to which the notions of beginning and end suits poorly." --Jos Teruel

Esta obra de Carmen Martín Gaite es una versión actual, situada en Nueva York, del conocido cuento de Charles Perrault. Sara es una niña de 10 años que vive en Brooklyn y sueña con ir ella sola a Manhattan a llevar a su abuela una tarta de fresa. La abuela es una antigua cantante de music hall. El lobo es un pastelero millonario que vive cerca de Central Park y no encuentra sentido a su vida. La figura mágica de miss Lunatic, cuyo secreto – haber sido la musa que inspiró al escultor de la estatua de la Libertad – llegará a conocer Sara, es el hilo conductor que lleva a la niña a realizar sus sueños de libertad … Nuestra edición de ”Caperucita en Manhattan” contiene el texto original abreviado. Pero no ha sido adaptada, conservando en todo momento el estilo original de la autora. Easy Readers er bearbejdede og forkortede udgaver af romaner og noveller. De findes på niveau A, B, C og D, hvor A er lettest. Niveauerne relaterer til Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (level A2 til B2).

"A Proustian journey into the interior, a dazzling psychodrama and, arguably, one of the best novels out of Spain in recent decades" Kirkus ReviewsOn the day he is released from prison in Madrid, Leonardo learns of his parents' death in a car crash.

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 constantly besieged by resurfacing oddballs from her past and her own tendency to daydream.

An impassioned correspondence between two former school friends as they reach crisis in middle age, from the prize-winning Spanish novelist Carmen Martin GaiteSofia is a mother of three grown-up children and trapped in a loveless marriage to Eduardo.

Winner of Spain's National Prize for Literature In the middle of the night, a woman awakens to find a stranger in her bedroom. Though she cannot determine who he is--or, indeed, whether he is even real at all and not just an extension of her dreams or her writing--she is drawn into a conversation with her unexpected guest. What she tells him becomes the story of a woman coming of age in the repressive Spain of the Franco era. In The Back Room Carmen Martin Gaite spins out a hypnotic evocation of one woman's life counterpointed against the social history of modern Spain. The growth of a personal identity and the terrors of fascism are woven together within the delicate fabric of this dreamlike narrative. The result is an intimate and existential confessional--part autobiography, part fiction. In direct and simple language, Martin Gaite envisions life within a world besieged. This, her finest work, explores the back room of memory with a quiet but irresistible power. "The winner of Spain's 1978 National Prize for Literature, Gaite's postmodern novel interweaves dreams and fantasies with autobiography and Spanish history, resulting in a book that is complex and elusive, but more than worth the effort."--Publishers Weekly "A serious, fascinating work, indeed a great novel...leaves its readers mesmerized."--ABC Literario "Excellently plotted and written with that perfect simplicity that tends to escape notice and which has characterized Gaite's novels from the start...She has once again made the difficult art of writing into easy reading."--El Mundo "...intensely serious, literary and wryly humorous, [her] mesmerizing, labyrinthine sentences induce a sense of wandering the corridors and topiaried gardens of Marienbad."--Sunday Times "Some of the cultural specifics in this 1978 novel from Spain-songs, doll furniture, movies-may be meaningful only for Spanish readers. But Martin Gaite's novel, the first in Columbia's new Twentieth Century Continental Fiction Program, is artful and engaging nonetheless, a book of intelligent moods modulating into one another."-Kirkus Reviews Carmen Martin Gaite was one of Spain's leading novelists. She was the author of numerous works of fiction and criticism, including Variable Cloud and, most recently, The Farewell Angel. The Back Room was the first of her novels to appear in Spain after the death of Franco, and the first to be translated into English. In 1978 it was awarded Spain's National Prize for Literature.