by Carmen Laforet · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423308774
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«La llamada» is a collection of short stories by Carmen Laforet, published by Destino in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together the short novel that gives it its title and the stories «Un noviazgo», «El último verano» and «El piano», narratives of postwar Spain that share a backdrop of misery and portray characters struck by adversity.
Work originally published in 1954. This edition, the third in the Destinolibro Collection, appeared in 1989.
For readers of twentieth-century Spanish fiction and short stories with a social background.
Carmen Laforet was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada continued the Spanish tremendismo literary style begun by Camilo José Cela with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte. She received the Premio Nadal in 1944.
