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Nada: A Novel

by Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (Translator), Mario Vargas Llosa (Introduction)

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One of the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain, Nada is the semiautobiographical story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona. Edith Grossman’s vital new translation captures Carmen Laforet’s feverish energy, powerful imagery, and subtle humor. Nada, which includes an illuminating Introduction by...moreOne of the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain, Nada is the semiautobiographical story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona. Edith Grossman’s vital new translation captures Carmen Laforet’s feverish energy, powerful imagery, and subtle humor. Nada, which includes an illuminating Introduction by Mario Vargas Llosa, is one of the great novels of twentieth-century Europe.

“Laforet vividly conveys the strangeness of Barcelona in the 1940s, a city that has survived civil war only to find itself muted by Franco’s dictatorship…The spirit of sly resistance that Laforet’s novel expresses, its heroine’s determination to escape provincial poverty and to immerse herself in ‘lights, noises, the entire tide of life,’ has lost none of its power of persuasion.” — The New York Times Book Review

“That this complex, mature and wise novel was written by someone in her early 20s is extraordinary….But after six decades, this first novel has lost none of its power and originality, and we are fortunate to have it in this fine translation.”-- The Washington Post, chosen as a Washington Post Best Book of the Year

“Nada does indeeed recall Sartre and Camus, but it is fresher and more vibrant than either, and with its call to intuition and feelings rather than intellect, it cuts deeper….[A] mesmerizing new translation….a beautiful evocation of the tidal wave of late adolescent feeling….[Laforet] wrote Nada when she was only 23, yet the book resonates with frightening maturity, sadness and depth…a work of genius.” — Los Angeles Times

“A brilliantly subtle book whose power lies in what goes unsaid…”Nada” is a skillfully written, multifaceted novel, and its eerie relevance to today’s political climate and social attitudes is difficult to ignore.” -- The San Francisco Chronicle

“Laforet’s moody and sepulchral debut novel…has been given new life by acclaimed translator Grossman….Andrea’s narration is gorgeously expressive, rippling with emotion and meaning…fans of European lit will welcome this Spanish Gothic to the States with open arms and a half-exasperated, “What took you so long?”–Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)

“This Modern Library edition should be a keeper.” — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“Carmen Laforet finds new life with this beautiful translation…dazzling in its approach…Laforet’s talent in addressing complex familial and social issues us nothing short of amazing…her wiser-than-thou nature and clever handling of bitter dialogue [are] the mark of a truly gifted writer…..a timeless work of art.” -- The Fredericksburg Free Lance Star

“Nada is neither moralist, nor prolix, unlike most other Spanish literature of the time and before. This is a modern voice, philosophically and stylistically, talking to us in freedom from the darkest hours of the victory of fascism….remarkably sophisticated.” -- The Independent

“[A] remarkable achievement…Nada’s work is sui generis, a gothic horror story which deserves the widest possible readership.” — The Sunday Herald

“Edith Grossman’s translation makes the rich, dense descriptions....sound perfectly natural in English; not a beat is missed, not an adjective misplaced. Let us hope that her fine, readable version will enable Nada to achieve, in the English-reading world, the perennial popularity of a great twentieth-century novel.” -- TLS
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Paperback, 272 pages

Published February 12th 2008 by Modern Library (first published 1945)

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Apr 01, 2009

Julie rated it

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To me, this novel represents literary perfection. The writer presents her characters without judgment, unrolls a plot that is simple in the outline but incredibly nuanced in the detail, a story that is so utterly of its era and location yet timeless in its themes.

This novel is set in Barcelona in the early 1940's, but as Mario Vargas Llosa notes in his introduction, references to the Spanish Civil War are very few and vague. Yet the physical, intellectual and cultural destruction of...more

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Nov 29, 2010

Jay rated it

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I first read Carmen Laforet’s Nada during my year in Spain in the early 1960s. Along with Ana Maria Matute, it was the first post war (=Spanish Civil War) literature I had added to my reading list that, up to that point, was weighted heavy on the Spanish classics. Over the years since that time, I have become increasingly aware of the vitality of Spanish literature during the presumed cultural depression of the Franco dictatorship (writers like Miguel Delibes, Camilo Jose Cela, Antonio Buero V...moreI first read Carmen Laforet’s Nada during my year in Spain in the early 1960s. Along with Ana Maria Matute, it was the first post war (=Spanish Civil War) literature I had added to my reading list that, up to that point, was weighted heavy on the Spanish classics. Over the years since that time, I have become increasingly aware of the vitality of Spanish literature during the presumed cultural depression of the Franco dictatorship (writers like Miguel Delibes, Camilo Jose Cela, Antonio Buero Vallejo) and its full emergence after Spain’s transition to democracy. The popular idea that Spanish literature ended with the death of Garcia Lorca is clearly wrong. And the evidence reaches back to 1945 with the publication of Nada.
I recently ran across an English translation of Nada and decided to re-read a work I had first read in Spanish over 40 years ago and that has emerged in Europe as one of the masterworks of the XX Century.
Set in Barcelona in the immediate post-war years, it is in one sense a “coming of age” story. Eighteen year old Andrea travels from the provinces to Barcelona, moving in with her dysfunctional relatives in order to begin her university studies. But it also captures the social bleakness, economic poverty and, as Fernanda Eberstad wrote in her New York Times review, the “fratricidal hatreds” that spilled over into the Franco years from the Civil War.
I seem to have lost my Spanish edition of the novel and only remember that Laforet’s Castilian was remarkably lyrical and personal. In that regard, Edith Grossman’s translation has captured the original style. There are only a few cumbersome, stilted sections. And the story itself seems vital even after the passage of 65 years, although some knowledge of Spanish history, literature and urban customs would benefit a reader.
In this my second reading after almost 50 years, the apartment on Calle de Arribau brought back memories of the family I lived with in Madrid. My family’s apartment was on the Calle de Jorge Juan. And even in 1961 the post war bleakness and tensions had not entirely faded. My family was certainly not as dysfunctional as Andrea’s, but the Civil War had taken a toll that left permanent, visible marks on all of its members.
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Mar 06, 2009

Jeanette rated it

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Carmen Laforet wrote with a quiet beauty. Not really poetic, just an understated elegance. Even the more dramatic or violent scenes have a quieter feeling than you'd expect. Quite impressive for a woman in her early twenties when she wrote this book.

The story is said to be somewhat autobiographical. Andrea, aged eighteen, goes to live with her grandmother, aunts, and uncles in Barcelona so she can attend the university. The family lives in greatly reduced circumstances after the S...more

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Mar 04, 2009

Ted Mooney rated it

This amazing novel about a young girl returning as an orphan to Barcelona after the Spanish Civil War is one of the classics of 20th century literature. LaForet, who was Catalan, was, of course, forbidden from writing it in anything but Spanish. She was 23 when she wrote it, and it won the first Premio Nadal in 1944, when it was published. This english translation includes a puzzled, admiring and amusing intro by Mario Vargas Llosa, who confesses he had never thought to read anything by a Spania...more

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Dec 20, 2008

Ashley rated it

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This modern classic shows the dark side of a once well-to-do family in Barcelona after Spain's civil war. Told from the perspective of 18-year-old Andrea, an orphan staying with relatives, the reader nevertheless feels an eerie distance from the happenings--a distance that Andrea, too, seems to feel. There are many aspects to her character that seem inexplicable to the modern American reader but that are staples of maintaining appearances vis-a-vis class standing in the Spanish literary traditio...more

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Oct 15, 2011

Zadaver rated it

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Gran libro, muy recomendable. Una muy buena historia contada con un gran estilo. Otra de esas novelas sobre el paso de la juventud a la edad adulta, pero en un entorno hostil y sofocante que, por momentos, traspasa el libro y genera en el lector la ansiedad que sufre la protagonista. Muy interesante el retrato de la Barcelona de la posguerra vista desde como afecta a las personas: como en parte la clase media se viene abajo (memorables las partes en las que Andrea pasa hambre, aunque en cierta m...more

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Feb 28, 2011

Elsje rated it

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Shelves: read-2006, recensieboek

Nada is de roman waar de Spaanse schrijfster Carmen Laforet in 1944, op 23-jarige leeftijd, mee debuteerde. Ze won er de prestigieuze literaire Nadal-prijs mee. Daarna schreef ze nog een aantal succesvolle verhalenbundels en romans. In de jaren '60 van de vorige eeuw stopte ze met schrijven en trok zich terug uit het openbare leven. Volgens haar zoon omdat de bekendheid en de steeds terugkerende vragen in interviews haar verveelden. De schrijfster overleed in 2004, en onlangs verscheen de Nederl...moreNada is de roman waar de Spaanse schrijfster Carmen Laforet in 1944, op 23-jarige leeftijd, mee debuteerde. Ze won er de prestigieuze literaire Nadal-prijs mee. Daarna schreef ze nog een aantal succesvolle verhalenbundels en romans. In de jaren '60 van de vorige eeuw stopte ze met schrijven en trok zich terug uit het openbare leven. Volgens haar zoon omdat de bekendheid en de steeds terugkerende vragen in interviews haar verveelden. De schrijfster overleed in 2004, en onlangs verscheen de Nederlandse vertaling van haar eersteling.

Het verhaal
'Nada' speelt zich af direct na de Spaanse burgeroorlog van 1936-1939 en beschrijft een jaar uit het leven van Andrea. Zij verhuist dan als 18-jarige naar Barcelona om te gaan studeren. Ze zal bij haar familie in gaan wonen. Maar dat blijkt een bizarre familie te zijn waarin de verschillende mensen elkaar openlijk beledigen en zelfs naar het leven staan. In de loop van het jaar wordt Andrea steeds meer leeggezogen door haar familie en wordt haar studie meer en meer op de achtergrond gedrukt. Toch probeert ze deze situatie te ontvluchten, zich eraan te onttrekken is het eigenlijk meer. Maar dat valt niet mee als je geplaagd door honger en continu op je hoede de wereld tegemoet moet treden.

Het is een bizar en beklemmend verhaal. Maar wel goed geschreven, je kunt je helemaal voorstellen hoe de aan het begin zo levenslustige Andrea totaal ten onder gaat door het leven tussen die haatdragende familieleden. En dat ze daar ook een tik van meekrijgt. Dat ze haar vrienden al net zo gaat bekijken als haar familieleden.

Het nawoord van Vargas Llosa, een Zuid-Amerikaans gevierd schrijver, verbaast me enigszins. Hij veroordeelt de manier waarop Laforet met het thema sex omgaat. Maar daarin is het Spanje van begin jaren '40 van de vorige eeuw niet te vergelijken met Zuid-Amerika. De moraal van die tijd, de veelal superstrenge bewaking van de eer van een meisje en de daarbij verkrampte manier om met lichamelijkheid om te gaan, de heimelijkheid en nieuwsgierigheid naar het verbodene is juist heel goed weergegeven!

Bovendien was het boek van Laforet natuurlijk nooit uitgegeven als zij als vrouw, halverwege de jaren '40, expliciet over sex had geschreven. Dus daar doet Vargas Llosa Laforet mi tekort.

Volgens de Spaanse Wikipedia beweren velen dat Nada autobiografisch is, maar Laforet zelf heeft dat altijd ontkend (hoewel ze wel aangaf dat er autobiografische elementen in haar werk zitten).

Aanrader? Ik weet het niet. Ik was geintrigeerd en omdat het zich in Barcelona afspeelt, een stad waar ik graag kom, kon ik veel plaatsen. Maar het verhaal is tegelijkertijd zo zwaar. Daar moet je maar net tegen kunnen. Omdat ik het zo naargeestig vond, las ik het in horten en stoten. Telkens legde ik het weg, om het een paar dagen later toch weer op te pakken. Want het intrigeert dus wel.

Oorspronkelijke titel: Nada (uitgegeven in 1944)
Vertaald uit het Spaans door Fenny Ebels
Met nawoord door Mario Vargas Llosa
Eerste druk, 2006(less)

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Feb 05, 2009

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Nada is a novel of Spain__and of the difficult transition to adulthood. Critics agree that it is a remarkable achievement for so young a voice at the time and one of the best novels written during the Franco regime. Mario Vargas Llosa notes in his introduction that Nada never overtly refers to the Fascist victory, yet "politics weighs on the entire story like an ominous silence." Still, Andrea's grim experiences__from navigating the bizarre terrain of her relatives to brokering friends

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Oct 12, 2011

Gonçalo Serra rated it

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Um livro forte, escrito com uma pureza de linguagem e despojado de artifícios que nos forcem à comiseração, indulgência...
A escritora faz-me lembrar Graça Pina de Morais e em particular a sua magnífica obra "A Origem".
- esta mais esquecida entre nós e diga-se injustamente. Em "Nada" é a cidade de Barcelona e uma acção que decorre em apenas 1 ano e um pequeno apartamento, em "A Origem" é o Norte do nosso país, um solar e 3 gerações. Porquê essas reminiscê...more

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Aug 02, 2009

Sarah rated it

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Shelves: fiction, historical

This isn't a genre that I am usually attracted to, but I find I am much more open to trying books I wouldn't have otherwise due to the sheer volume of audiobooks I have been going through lately. Regardless, I thought the writing style was excellent, with an almost prose-like feel to it. Pretty imoressive given that this is a translation. It remided me a bit of The Bell Jar, in that there isn't much going on in regard to actual events and actions, but there is a breadth of things going on at an ...more

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Jan 01, 2012

Emily rated it

While not a favorite for me, this is an amazing work, written by Laforet at the early age of 23 and heralded as a treasure of Spanish fiction and one of the great works of twentieth century literature. In Nada, Laforet painfully paints early 1940s Spain using the metaphor of a once wealthy family crumbling into poverty, filth, and immorality. It was interesting for me to read another work depicting Spain after the Civil War having recently read The Time In Between.

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Nov 16, 2010

Stephanie D. (Misfit Salon) rated it

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Small town girl Andrea comes to live with her relatives in 1940s Barcelona in order to study at the university. During the year that follows, the allure of life in the exciting city quickly degenerates as Andrea's demanding and volatile family suffocates her spirit.

Andrea's relatives are the probably one of the most dysfunctional I've ever come across in literature . Laforet runs away with the stereotype of explosive Spanish temperament with enraged uncles trying to kill each other ...moreSmall town girl Andrea comes to live with her relatives in 1940s Barcelona in order to study at the university. During the year that follows, the allure of life in the exciting city quickly degenerates as Andrea's demanding and volatile family suffocates her spirit.

Andrea's relatives are the probably one of the most dysfunctional I've ever come across in literature . Laforet runs away with the stereotype of explosive Spanish temperament with enraged uncles trying to kill each other or beating their wives. It seems as if every other chapter has a murderous fight, whether verbal or physical. If they're not fighting, then they're trying to stifle Andrea.

The beginning seems to promise adventure as Andrea arrives in the Barcelona train station in the dead of night. Instead, however, it goes jaggedly downhill from there. Her aunt is obsessed with making sure Andrea remains chaste and pure from the influence of the city, its inhabitants, and rebellious ideas. Her Uncles Roman and Juan hate each other and everybody else. Juan beats his wife, Gloria, regularly. The maid is surly. Her grandmother suffers the violence between her sons and their neglect of her.

Andrea's home life goes from bad to worse, then even worse until she befriends the rich and beautiful Ena at the university. Their friendship introduces her to a more civilized and pampered existence and Ena becomes her refuge from the horrible fights at home. That is, until their friendship and her unstable family unexpectedly collide.

As the innocent lamb who comes into the den of lions, I kept expecting Andrea either be swallowed whole by her crazy family or turn crazy herself. Neither happened. Everyone around her explodes in fury and behaves outrageously, yet Andrea, other than indulging in a little rebellion, somehow hangs onto her sanity.

"One twilight near the Cathedral I heard the slow tolling of a bell that made the city older. I looked up at the sky, turning a softer, bluer color with the first stars, and I had an impression of almost mystical beauty. A desire to die there, off to the side, looking up, under the great sweetness of the night that was beginning to fall. And my chest ached with hunger and unconfessable desires when I breathed. It was as if I were smelling the scent of death and finding it good for the first time after it had caused terror in me."

Very little is revealed about Andrea's life before coming to live in Barcelona, as if, like the title, she was nothing, a clean slate upon which her family's rages and unreasonable demands become written. Will she become as they are or will she escape their tortured legacy? (less)

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Jun 02, 2010

Kerry rated it

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Shelves: about_a_woman, audiobook, fromthelibrary

Okay, first of all, the narrator was pretty terrible. She over-enunciated every word, which (in addition to making her sound like as though English was not her first language -- which in itself isn't terrible, but I'd prefer an interesting (Spanish) accent) introduced all kinds of pauses where I don't think there should have been.

Secondly, I think the translation may have been poor -- but how can you tell something like, that right? But so much of the book is existential rambling, ...more

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Oct 15, 2011

Robin rated it

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This book is about an extremely disfunctional family in Barcelona, Spain before WWII and after the Spanish Civil War. The family members did unpleasant things to each other, one after the other. I couldn't see the point of this, or where the book was going, so I gave up after about 60 pages. This book has been credited as being one of the best books of the 20th century. Maybe I would have seen the value if I'd read further, but it wasn't worth it to me.

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Apr 21, 2011

Ernie rated it

I wish I understood better written spanish so I could read the original and look for the line between Laforet's work and Edith Grossman's translation. As far as I can tell from the end result, I endorse both. I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would since I only wanted it as background research on Barcelona.

It was like a dairy queen blizzard with tasty chunks of Sylvia Plath, George Orwell, maybe Donna Tartt or Charles Dickens or Fitzgerald mixed in.

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Jan 19, 2012

Julia Boechat Machado rated it

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Shelves: 1940s, spanish-literature

Em Nada, a jovem Andrea chega à Barcelona para estudar Letras, logo após o fim da Guerra Civil. Já foi notado que o livro não possui muitas referências à Guerra, mas a casa de sua família é marcada pelas suas conseqüências. Os membros de sua família são pessoas famintas, violentas, meio enlouquecidas, sujas, pessoas que despertam um misto de fascinação e repulsa. A Barcelona que ela conhece com eles tem as mesmas características, e é uma cidade oprimente, a Barcelona em que senhoritas não podem ...more

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Nov 25, 2008

Gina rated it

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Carmen Laforet was amazingly bold especially at such a young age to write this beautiful novel. It is beautiful in the sense that it reflects all the psychological tension and struggle of survival of post-war Spain from a young girl's perspective as she describes the harsh reality, emptiness, and misery of not only her family, but of the plunge of society due to the social and political climate.

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Nov 14, 2009

Lauren Cunningham rated it

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Shelves: books-from-college

This book was not a bad book at all. Laforet is listed as one of the first Spanish, feminist writer's out there and has created an interesting book about a girl who is trying to grow up in the wreckage of the Civil War. You go through the tribulations of her life and experience a piece of loss with her (Andrea). It's a sad book, and had it been the first of it's kind that I had ever read, I probably would have given it one more star.

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Dec 18, 2011

Andrea rated it

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My name is Andrea, I'm 17 and I live in Barcelona; but also, reading this book made me connect with the main character, which has nearly all those things in common with me. I found myself agreeing with her thoughts and her somewhat depressive vision of life, as well as her timid hopes and wishes, which i share while coming of age, as well. I believe this book to be very well-written and i'd recommend it to anyone my age. Perhaps, if I was to say something negative about it, I do wish that it wou...more

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Feb 22, 2011

Susan_T. rated it

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A "detailed autopsy of a girl imprisoned in a hungry, half-crazed family on Calle de Aribau," Mario Vargas Llosa writes in the introduction to the English translation of this Spanish classic. Set in Barcelona just after the Spanish Civil War, the novel is both lyrical (and occasionally overwritten) and harrowing.

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May 14, 2011

Blue rated it

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Recommends it for: Africa, Alexia, Yne, Simonetta

Shelves: read-in-spanish

Laforet is a master of language and character. The subject matter is nothing extraordinary, no more than daily lives and family melodramas, but the narration through Andrea's voice, with its doubts and rash judgments and young delusions and stomach grumblings, gives everything a fresh edge.

And if you get a sense this book, which is loosely based on Laforet's own life when she was a student, is hiding something in its strangely homoerotic narration from time to time, distant rumors f...more

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Oct 03, 2008

Joyce rated it

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Shelves: fiction-and-literature

I read about this book in a book review and hunted it down. It is truly fabulous. I agree with other reviewers that it is marvelously written.

It has been described as depressing and sad, and normally I shy away from books like that. However, I did not find this book to be depressing. Sad yes, but not in the way that is hopeless or for a sadness without purpose.

I also enjoyed this book because I love Barcelona and I could envision the streets. A little this reminded m...more

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Oct 23, 2011

Nathan rated it

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A rich, beautifully written novel (by a 23-year-old at publication) about the different, chaotic strands of life, how whole phases of our life are difficult to define and don't necessarily make sense.

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May 15, 2010

Darshan Elena rated it

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What a brilliant little novel. It documents a young woman's experience of poverty, depression, and sexism at the onset of the Spanish Civil War. Laforet's prose is masterful, poetic and disturbing.

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Feb 25, 2010

Mark marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010, branigan-book-club, domestic-fiction, fantasy, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, mark-picks, mystery-and-suspense

Nada is the December 2010 selection for the Branigan BookClub.

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Jan 11, 2010

Margy rated it

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I read this in grad school, in Spanish, 24 years ago, but images and situations from this Gothic novel still stay with me. I don't know if there is a decent English translation in existence.

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May 23, 2011

Debbie rated it

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Recommends it for: Someone looking for a well done translation

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The Muensters or the Addams Family set in Barcelona. Poor Andrea, an orphan, winds up living with her Grandma,etc., in the old homestead. A gothic horror story , but with beautiful writing and twists added to keep it from cliche, ensues.

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Mar 28, 2011

Laura Frey rated it

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Picked this up on a whim; it was a staff selection at the down town library. It was dark and sparse and I felt like I was watching an old black and white movie - in a good way.

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Mar 23, 2009

Abby rated it

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The story of a disconnected girl who goes to live with her extremely violent and dismal extended family in Barcelona, and continues throughout the narrative to be depressed, starving and weepy, Nada was Not-a fun reading experience!

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Jul 24, 2011

Sharon rated it

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Shelves: 2011-read

not sure what I expected but didn't really get into this book. I tried to put myself in the time/place that it was written but just couldn't warm up to it.

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Carmen Laforet was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada continued the Spanish Tremendismo literary style begun by Camilo José Cela with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte.

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