El cuarto de atras

Name: El cuarto de atras
Author: Carmen Martin Gaite

by Carmen Martin Gaite

Metafictional novel blending reality and dream during night of writing and memory

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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.

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