El Cuarto de Atrás (Edición Limitada) / The Back Room (Limited Edition)

Durante una noche desapacible de insomnio, C, la escritora protagonista de esta historia (alter ego de la propia Carmen Mart璯 Gaite), recibe la visita de un misterioso desconocido con el que mantendr?una larga conversaci鏮 en el cuarto de atr嫳 de la vivienda. En ese di嫮ogo, la autora comparte recuerdos de infancia y de juventud, as?como personales reflexiones acerca del oficio de escribir, la opresiva condici鏮 de ser mujer en la Espa鎙 de posguerra o sus ideas acerca de la memoria, el amor y la bqueda de la identidad.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The Back Room, winner of the National Narrative Prize in 1978, is at once a memoir, a literary essay, and a novel woven from stories born out of a long and intimate conversation the author holds with herself.

On a bleak, sleepless night, C, the writer who narrates this story (the alter ego of Carmen Mart璯 Gaite herself), receives a visit from a mysterious stranger with whom she engages in a long conversation in the back room of her home. Throughout this dialogue, the author shares childhood and youth memories, as well as personal reflections on the craft of writing, the oppressive condition of being a woman in postwar Spain, and her thoughts on memory, love, and the search for identity.