Entre Visillos / Behind the Curtains

No le contest?ni que s?ni que no. Segu?dici幯dole adi鏀 con la mano, hasta que la vi pararse en el l璥ite del and幯, sin dejar de mirarme. Se le ca燰n las l墔rimas.

Entre visillos (Premio Nadal 1957) retrata el ambiente, el conservadurismo y la hipocres燰 que subyace en una ciudad de provincias espa隳la de mediados del siglo pasado. Las conversaciones aparentemente banales entre las j镽enes protagonistas de esta novela nos ir嫕 dando a conocer sus angustias, su miedo a quedarse solteras, la monoton燰 de sus vidas, sus paseos y primeros novios, los bailes en el casino y esa tristeza que se oculta tras el aburrimiento y la falta de imaginaci鏮. La llegada del nuevo y atractivo profesor de alem嫕 provocar?en las protagonistas el deseo de liberarse del conformismo y de esa atm鏀fera opresiva.

A novel about the search for female freedom that turned Carmen Mart璯 Gaite into a twentieth-century literary classic.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

I didn't say yes or no. I kept waving goodbye until I saw her standing on the end of the platform--her eyes never left me. She was crying.

Behind the Curtains (Nadal Prize 1957) portrays the environment, the conservatism, the undergoing hypocrisy in a city of the Spanish countryside, in the mid-twentieth century. The apparently banal conversations among the young protagonists show us their anguish, their fear of being single, the monotony of their lives, their walks and their first boyfriends, the dances at the casino, and that sadness concealed behind boredom and a lack of imagination. The arrival of a new and attractive German professor will result in their wish to break free from conformism and that oppressive atmosphere.