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...
stupid secret tears
The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.
writing narrative thread
I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.
night profound exciting
That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.
left
When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.