by Carmen Laforet · Planeta Pub Corp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423327751
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«Nada» is the existentialist novel by Carmen Laforet, published by Planeta Pub Corp in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
After the Civil War, Andrea arrives in Barcelona to study and moves into her grandmother's house, where she lives with uncles marked by resentment, poverty and violence. Between that oppressive atmosphere and the university, the young woman finds in her friendship with Ena a way to glimpse the outside world while trying to build her own path.
Nada was Carmen Laforet's first novel, originally published in 1944, and won the Premio Nadal in 1944 and the Premio Fastenrath in 1948.
For readers of twentieth-century Spanish classics and postwar stories with a female protagonist.
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.
