Carmen Laforet

The articles collected in this book, originally published between 1948 and 1953 in the Puntos de vista de una mujer (A Woman's Points of View) column of Destino magazine, reveal Carmen Laforet's writing as a mirror reflecting the everyday life of her time—an era when women sought to be seen and heard beyond the confines of their own rooms. Yet, Laforet did more than portray the concerns and desires of women in a nation weighed down by repression. With an intimate and courageous voice, determined to be true to herself, she carved out a shared space of freedom and solidarity.

In these pieces, Carmen Laforet masterfully achieves one of writing’s great feats: transforming the everyday into something extraordinary, imbuing the mundane with new meaning. Through these works, we rediscover a different facet of an author who broke barriers in the 1940s, while her journalistic gaze proves essential to completing the portrait of this remarkable figure.