by Carmen Laforet · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423356980
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«Nada» is Carmen Laforet's postwar novel, published by Austral at Planeta in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
In postwar Barcelona, Andrea arrives to study literature and moves into her grandmother's house, a tense and oppressive environment. The university world, with her friendship with Ena, clashes with family life in a dramatic outcome. Critics have compared the novel Nada to «Cumbres borrascosas» for its direct prose and female voice.
Nada belongs to the Contemporánea collection. The edition is by Rosa Navarro Durán. Carmen Laforet won the Premio Nadal for Nada.
It is prescribed reading for secondary school in Catalonia, Asturias and the Basque Country.
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.
