Wells traces Laforet's tendency to create characters that seek psychological relief in one way or another to the early. When her mother died when Laforet was 13, her father quickly married his mistress, who was so jealous of Laforet's mother that she forbade any trace of her in the home, and she encouraged Laforet and her brothers to be out of the house as much as possible. Nada by Carmen Laforet - 9780820420646 Book Depository is closing Categories: Language Teaching & Learning Material & Coursework Contemporary Fiction Historical Fiction Share Nada 3. Laforet was particularly close to her mother, who guided her in her reading early in life. Wells takes a biographical approach, noting that Laforet's life can be helpful in understanding her fiction. Wells's book is well informed by psychoanalytic theories, which she selects according to those that best illuminate her analysis of each novel. The psychoanalytic approach is particularly apt for a study that includes Al volver la esquina, because the protagonist Martin Soto is undergoing psychoanalysis.

So this is the first book-length study of Laforet that includes her last posthumously published book A! volver la esquina (2004), which was to form part of a trilogy - Tres pasos fuera del tiempo - with La insolación (1963) and Jaque mate, the manuscript of which has never been found. To my knowledge there are only two other books that include the four novels available at the time of their publication: Roberta Johnson's Carmen Laforet (Boston: Twayne, 1981) and Graciela Ulano Aldaro's La novelística de Carmen Laforet (Madrid: Gredos, 1971). Carmen Laforet (Author) Born in Barcelona in 1921, Carmen Laforet spent her childhood in Las Palmas until, like the heroine of her novel, she returned to her. Just when we might have thought there could be no new approaches to Carmen Laforet's fiction - genre, thematic, feminist, comparative, having all been thoroughly explored - Caragh Wells brings us a psychoanalytic study of Laforet's five novels. CARAGH WELLS, The Novels of Carmen Laforet: An Aesthetics of Relief.

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