CARMEN MARTÍN GAITE: MUJER ANDRÓGINO Y MUJER ENSIMISMADA

Abstract

Carmen Martín Gaite's narrative is structured around the figures of the androgynous woman and self-absorption, aesthetic categories developed by Luis Beltrán Almería. The former embodies a modern subject who takes on traditionally masculine attributes in response to the crisis of the hombre inútil. The second refers to a self-referential practice sustained in autobiography, where subjectivity is elaborated through forms such as the diary and the epistolary. In Irse de casa, the journey - conceived by Beltrán as a metaphor for the conflict and transformation.