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Carmen Laforet's Nada: From Bildrungsroman To Wilder(W)Oman, Rosario Nolasco
Carmen Laforet's Nada: From Bildrungsroman To Wilder(W)Oman, Rosario Nolasco
Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal
The prize-winning Bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel, Nada ( 1944) by the Spanish writer Carmen Laforet, tells the story of eighteen-year-old Andrea, who, in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, fulfills her long awaited dream of traveling to Barcelona to study at its University. But the house on Aribau Street, where her relatives live, turns out to be a microcosm of Spanish social ills. It is filled with the spiritual, moral, physical and emotional decadence typical of Spain in the post-Civil War period of the 1940's, hence the title Nada [Nothing]. Thus Andrea arrives at Aribau, having the appearance of, …
Manual De Fonética Hispánica, Orlando Alba