![]() ![]() ![]() Nada tells the story of Andrea who, like Laforet herself, leaves her native Canary Islands at the age of 18 to live in her grandmother's house in Barcelona, with the intention of studying literature at the university. Read in Argentina before the military dictatorship, it spoke to us of a state of fear and oppression that we could not know was threatening us read in English today, it retains, within the now alien world it depicts, a note of warning and salutary unease. With Nada, Laforet broke Spanish literature free from the cumbersome shadow of 19th-century prose and the cold, censored rhetoric of Spanish fascism. The author was 23, and it is hard to understand how someone so young, within the isolation of Franco's Spain, should have been able to produce such an accomplished novel, so powerful in its story and so polished in its style. ![]()
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