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The Back Room (1978)

di Carmen Martin Gaite

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Winner of Spain's National Prize for Literature In the middle of the night, a woman awakens to find a stranger in her bedroom. Though she cannot determine who he is--or, indeed, whether he is even real at all and not just an extension of her dreams or her writing--she is drawn into a conversation with her unexpected guest. What she tells him becomes the story of a woman coming of age in the repressive Spain of the Franco era. InThe Back RoomCarmen Martín Gaite spins out a hypnotic evocation of one woman's life counterpointed against the social history of modern Spain. The growth of a personal identity and the terrors of fascism are woven together within the delicate fabric of this dreamlike narrative. The result is an intimate and existential confessional--part autobiography, part fiction. In direct and simple language, Martín Gaite envisions life within a world besieged. This, her finest work, explores the back room of memory with a quiet but irresistible power. "The winner of Spain's 1978 National Prize for Literature, Gaite's postmodern novel interweaves dreams and fantasies with autobiography and Spanish history, resulting in a book that is complex and elusive, but more than worth the effort." --Publishers Weekly "Some of the cultural specifics in this 1978 novel from Spain--songs, doll furniture, movies--may be meaningful only for Spanish readers. But Martin Gaite's novel, the first in Columbia's new Twentieth Century Continental Fiction Program, is artful and engaging nonetheless, a book of intelligent moods modulating into one another." --Kirkus Reviews ". . . intensely serious, literary and wryly humorous, [her] mesmerizing, labyrinthine sentences induce a sense of wandering the corridors and topiaried gardens of Marienbad." --Sunday Times Carmen Martín Gaite was one of Spain's leading novelists. She was the author of numerous works of fiction and criticism, includingVariable Cloud andThe Farewell Angel.The Back Room was the first of her novels to appear in Spain after the death of Franco, and the first to be translated into English. In 1978 it was awarded Spain's National Prize for Literature.… (altro)
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Es un libro que hace que te intereses y el final te deja pensativo ya que al final no sabes si era un sueño o había pasado de verdad. ( )
  albaa.04 | Mar 14, 2024 |
Durante una noche de insomnio, la escritora recibe la visita de un desconocido interlocutor cuya identidad permanecerá oculta en todo momento... Los recuerdos de infancia y juventud en Salamanca se irán mezclando con sus reflexiones sobre los sueños, el amor, la escritura o la memoria.
  Natt90 | Mar 7, 2023 |
Se siente como una conversación con una amiga lejana. Empecé a leerlo con regañadientes y terminé con la sensación de conocer a Martín Gaite de toda la vida. ( )
  Mog01 | Mar 3, 2023 |
En un ejercicio de modernidad sin pretensiones, Carmen Martín Gaite se lanza aquí a la autoficción, en un momento en el que, desconozco por completo, si este género estaba muy consolidado, y con una historia de argumento sencillo pero de gran armazón. Casi al principio nos hace un resumen de su plan: “Pretender al mismo tiempo entender y soñar: ahí está la condena de mis noches.”
Y pretender explicar el proceso de creación literaria, con su bagaje de libros, sus fugas y pérdidas del hilo, con la memoria de su propia vida, no debe ser nada fácil, pero consigue trasladarnos una gran parte de esa experiencia con una novela que mezcla también la fantasía, el misterio, y la memoria histórica. Pero no corre nunca toda la cortina que nos deje ver lo más profundo, porque “solo la distancia revela el secreto de lo que parecía estar oculto”.
El humor y el ingenio que se infiltran en toda la historia, creo, que nos dan una pista del carácter de Martín Gaite, que no deja de ironizar sobre el mundo que le tocó vivir y sobre ella misma.
Las metáforas llenan el libro desde el título, con ese cuarto de atrás, “me lo imagino también como un desván del cerebro, una especie de recinto secreto lleno de trastos borrosos, separado de las antesalas más limpias y ordenadas de la mente por una cortina que solo se descorre de vez en cuando; los recuerdos que pueden darnos alguna sorpresa viven agazapados en el cuarto de atrás, siempre salen de allí, y sólo cuando quieren, no sirve hostigarlos. Las piedrecitas blancas, las miguitas, y los refugios, o el escondite inglés como fórmula que utilizan los recuerdos para sorprendernos.
Y me quedo con la estela que nos ofrece para poder de llegar a Cunigan o a la isla de Bergai:

“A Bergai se llegaba por el aire. Bastaba con mirar a la ventana, invocar el lugar con los ojos cerrados y se producía la levitación. «Siempre que notes que no te quieren mucho —me dijo mi amiga—, o que no entiendes algo, te vienes a Bergai. Yo te estaré esperando allí». ( )
  Orellana_Souto | Jul 27, 2021 |
"El cuarto de atrás" es resultado de una fructífera mezcla de libro de memorias, relato de misterio y ensayo sobre literatura. Carmen Martín Gaite, desde el hito histórico y cultural que marcó la muerte del general Franco, indaga en su pasado individual y colectivo gracias al diálogo con un misterioso visitante, que representa también la entrada en la novela de los lectores futuros o de quienes desde la "post-memoria" necesitan entender los efectos narcóticos y demoledores del franquismo sobre la vida cotidiana. ( )
  Beiesa | Feb 10, 2020 |
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Winner of Spain's National Prize for Literature In the middle of the night, a woman awakens to find a stranger in her bedroom. Though she cannot determine who he is--or, indeed, whether he is even real at all and not just an extension of her dreams or her writing--she is drawn into a conversation with her unexpected guest. What she tells him becomes the story of a woman coming of age in the repressive Spain of the Franco era. InThe Back RoomCarmen Martín Gaite spins out a hypnotic evocation of one woman's life counterpointed against the social history of modern Spain. The growth of a personal identity and the terrors of fascism are woven together within the delicate fabric of this dreamlike narrative. The result is an intimate and existential confessional--part autobiography, part fiction. In direct and simple language, Martín Gaite envisions life within a world besieged. This, her finest work, explores the back room of memory with a quiet but irresistible power. "The winner of Spain's 1978 National Prize for Literature, Gaite's postmodern novel interweaves dreams and fantasies with autobiography and Spanish history, resulting in a book that is complex and elusive, but more than worth the effort." --Publishers Weekly "Some of the cultural specifics in this 1978 novel from Spain--songs, doll furniture, movies--may be meaningful only for Spanish readers. But Martin Gaite's novel, the first in Columbia's new Twentieth Century Continental Fiction Program, is artful and engaging nonetheless, a book of intelligent moods modulating into one another." --Kirkus Reviews ". . . intensely serious, literary and wryly humorous, [her] mesmerizing, labyrinthine sentences induce a sense of wandering the corridors and topiaried gardens of Marienbad." --Sunday Times Carmen Martín Gaite was one of Spain's leading novelists. She was the author of numerous works of fiction and criticism, includingVariable Cloud andThe Farewell Angel.The Back Room was the first of her novels to appear in Spain after the death of Franco, and the first to be translated into English. In 1978 it was awarded Spain's National Prize for Literature.

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