Carmen Martin Gaite
Spanish author whose fiction charts the experiences of women under the Franco dictatorship. Between Curtains (El cuarto de atras) blends fantasy and memoir in a uniquely imaginative form of autobiographical novel.
Works
- El cuarto de atrasMetafictional novel blending reality and dream during night of writing and memory
- Ritmo lentoSpanish title suggesting slow rhythm or pace, likely domestic or lyrical narrative
- Entre visillosSpanish novel of provincial women's lives behind closed shutters in postwar society
- Nubosidad variableSpanish title referring to variable cloudiness or uncertainty in narrative or consciousness
- Lo raro es vivirSpanish title translating to The Strange Thing Is Living about human existence