Carmen Laforet
Carmen Laforet
Carmen Laforetwas 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...
writing narrative thread
I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.
left
When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.
firsts scared first-time
It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.
night profound exciting
That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.
stories decay goes-on
I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays...
stupid secret tears
The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.