- Paperback: 243 pages
- Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc (December 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0820420646
- ISBN-13: 978-0820420646
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,564,832 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"'Nada' has been acclaimed as one of Spain's most compelling and powerful novels of the century. The charm of the story and its compelling power are much deeper than its sociological significance in regions of the imagination touched by Poe, Grimm, Kafka, and Musil. Glafyra Ennis's excellent and lively translation should make 'Nada' a preferred text for courses in comparative literature and women's studies on the Bildungsroman."
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"Nada has been acclaimed as one of the best accounts of life in post-civil war Spain. It is a work that reflects the psychological and sociological effects of war on a society, particularly on its youth. It also represents the bittersweet reality of life: the price paid and the sacrifices made for personal freedom. Its setting is in 1939 Barcelona but its story is universal, for it depicts the hopes, the anxieties, and the frustrations of our time, portrayed by a young woman in search of her own identity in a society rocked by changing mores. This novel is imbued with such an array of expressionistic, impressionistic, and even some surrealistic descriptions that a literary critic states, "The finished product is a work of art, not a slice of life." In reality, it is both of these. Although "Nada is narrated in the first person, Laforet compensates for the limitation of a first-person narration by interposing dialogues among characters, thus giving the reader insight into matters that would otherwise unknown.
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Por dificultades en el ultimo momento para adquirir billetes, Ilegue a Barcelona a medianoche, en un tren distinto del que habia anunciado, y no me esperaba nadie. Read the first page
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Por dificultades en el ultimo momento para adquirir billetes, Ilegue a Barcelona a medianoche, en un tren distinto del que habia anunciado, y no me esperaba nadie. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A very good read.,
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This review is from: NADA (Paperback)
This is an excellent novel. From the very beginning Carmen Laforet manages to create a very interesting and convincing atmosphere, the characters are full and the plot does not stagnate. I have read it several times and always enjoyed it.
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Barcelona fascinante y sombría,
By Enrique Luis Avogadro (Buenos Aires Argentina) - See all my reviews
This review is from: NADA (Paperback)
"Nada" es el encanto original de Barcelona, la tenebrosa antigüedad de algunas calles, la noche como un compendio de aventuras confusas. Su virtud reside más en la rebuscada sicología de Andrea y sus congéneres que en la eficiente escritura de Carmen Laforet. Más que cualquier otra cosa, la casa de la calle Aribau es el logro mayor del libro, quedando para siempre su decadente y asfixiante impronta en el imaginario colectivo, un espacio habitualmente esquivo a las construcciones literarias.
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Nada,
By Benjamin Macuil (Mexico City, MEX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: NADA (Paperback)
I have read this book and i think its just one of the greatest stories of all times. It describes the life of a girl, Andrea, who moves to Barcelona to study in a post-war society. She lives in her grandmother's house with her aunt Angustias, her uncles Juan and Roman, Juan's wife, Gloria, their son, and the maid, Antonia. Carmen Laforet perfectly describes every situation, like the impression she got when she first walked into her new home, or her fragile relationship with Ena, the beautiful girl in college, who becomes her best friend, an who also is strangely attracted to Roman. This is the circle of situations in qhich the story develops. I highly recommend it.
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