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 n Gaite), recibe la visita de un misterioso desconocido con el que mantendr una larga conversaci n en el cuarto de atr s de la vivienda. En ese di logo, la autora comparte recuerdos de infancia y de juventud, as como personales reflexiones acerca del oficio de escribir, la opresiva condici n de ser mujer en la Espa a de posguerra o sus ideas acerca de la memoria, el amor y la b squeda 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 n 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.