by Carmen Laforet · Ediciones Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423335589
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«La mujer nueva» is a novel by Carmen Laforet published by Ediciones Destino in paperback, with 336 pages, in Spanish.
Paulina, a middle-aged woman, separates from her husband when her marriage is invalidated by the contradictions of the Civil War and settles alone in Madrid to rebuild her life. Between motherhood and a passionate love, she discovers a new version of herself and her faith, in a novel that is a precursor to feminist literature in postwar Spain.
The novel belongs to the Áncora & Delfin collection (no. 984). It won the Premio Menorca in 1955 and the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1956.
A novel for readers of postwar Spanish narrative and stories about female emancipation.
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.
