Carmen Martín Gaite
Poetics, Visual Elements and Space
Description:... - The central idea of the book is to underline the importance of traveling in Martin Gaite’s novels, as the main characters move throughout geographies linked to four grounding elements: home, imagination, the city and the writing process. These movements allow the reader to establish links between the novels as well as reflect upon how the writer’s gaze dissects both her surroundings and her own creative process.
- Visual elements of Martín Gaite’s work. For years, she made drawings and collages in her notebooks. It is particularly thought-provoking to see how her personal use of these techniques becomes part of her narrative in the 90s.
- How to write a novel? Why the representation of space is relevant? Why are there so many female characters in Martín Gaite’s narrative? Why do these women write and write to each other? Why are so many there references to paintings in her narrative? How is collage used in her narrative? Why is gaze predominant? The answers to these questions are related to the writing processes in the works of Martín Gaite. In both her essays and novels, she always reflected upon the relevance of the act of writing.
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