La última Carmen Laforet: creciendo hacia la juventud

Abstract

Since the publication of La insolación (1963), Carmen Laforet had been engaged in the writing of a novel, Al volver la esquina, which was to be the second installment of a trilogy with which she aspired to radically change her work. The composition process lasted more than fifteen years, until 1979. Throughout this period the horizon of the novel in Spanish and the Laforet's expectations and circumstances changed. The version of the novel published in 2004 responded to an advanced but not definitive stage of this process.