Puntos de vista de una mujer

In the articles published between 1948 and 1953 in the section "Points of view of a woman" of Destino magazine that are collected in this book, Carmen Laforet's writing is revealed as a mirror that reflects the everyday life of her time: a time when women wanted to be seen and heard beyond the walls of their own room. However, she not only portrayed the concerns and desires of women in a country mired in repression, but with an intimate and courageous voice, determined to be herself, she knew how to create a shared space of freedom and complicity. In these texts, Carmen Laforet masterfully displays one of the great feats of writing: transforming everyday life into an extraordinary event, making the trivial take on a new meaning. Thus we rediscover another facet of an author who broke barriers in the 1940s, and whose journalistic gaze is essential to complete the great figure that she was.