Guide to the Classics: Carmen Laforet's Nada captures longing and desire in post-war Spain

By Ruth McHugh-Dillon, Lecturer in European Languages (Spanish and Latin American Studies), Monash University

If you haven’t heard of Nada, one of the most important European novels of the 20th century, you’re not alone.

Written in a few short months by Carmen Laforet, it was originally published in Spain in 1944 to immediate acclaim. It won a wide readership and Spain’s inaugural Premio Nadal, now the country’s most prestigious literary prize. Yet Nada took more than 80 years to appear in English…

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