The 3 best books by Carmen Martín Gaite

There are writers with an absolutely closed method that favors them in two respects: no novel started will end up abandoned in a drawer and the virtue of order and organization ends up serving them to face any literary challenge. So it is easy to understand that Carmen Martín Gaite, one of our most ...

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Amorous uses of eighteen in Spain

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That little has been written about fucking, beyond the erotic narrative, is an indisputable fact. We know little about the customs of courtship in its last instances throughout history. Taboos or romanticism turn everything into presumptions and intuitions, but the truth ...

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