Today, when Nada is recognised as one of the few great novels to be written during the dictatorship, its portrayal of a crushed, starving middle-class family in a sordid Barcelona reveals how violent abnormality was the norm of life under fascism. At the time, it was seen as a sensationalist novel about violent, mad, abnormal people.

'It still surprises that this powerful, albeit implicit, indictment of Franco's dictatorship got past the censors.

(…) Laforet died almost exactly three years ago, after having converted to Catholicism in 1951 and published several novels and collections of short stories no doubt more carefully written, no doubt better structured than Nada, but lacking the fiery genius of her first, incandescent masterpiece.' - Alberto Manguel, The Guardian

'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.

Es ist eine präzise, von Susanne Lange in ein adäquates Deutsch gebrachte Sprache, die den spannenden Roman so authentisch macht und auch heute noch überzeugend wirken läßt.' - Walter Haubrich, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

'Carmen Laforet vermeidet Gemeinplätze, abgebrauchte Wendungen und die damals in Spaniens Literatur üblichen rhetorischen Floskeln.

Payne (1964) and as Nada by Glafyra Ennis (1993)ĭidn't take to it at first try, put it aside to try again laterĪlmost all very impressed - with a lot of harping on how young she was when she wrote it

Previously translated as Andrea by Charles F.

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