‘Carmen Martín Gaite; a biography', by Professor José Teruel, fits the author of 'Entre visillos' into her social landscape.
The jury of the Comillas Prize, organized by the Tusquets publishing house for biographies, books of memoirs and history, has chosen for its XXXVII edition the work Carmen Martín Gaite: una biografía, by the philologist José Teruel. According to the press note by Tusquets, the work “brilliantly describes the social and literary context of a narrator who knew how to conquer several generations of readers.
While evoking with exquisite sensitivity the tragedies that conditioned the personality of the author from Salamanca, José Teruel gives us enlightening keys to interpret a literary world of great psychological depth, which is highlighted by the wise handling of the very interesting correspondence, the countless personal notes of Martín Gaite and many unpublished texts.
