Cuadernos AISPI

Introduction

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The 2002 publication of the first edition of Cuadernos de todo demonstrated that Carmen Martín Gaite's work is a unified text that unfolds across different genres and titles. Subsequently, the annotated edition of her Obras completas (Complete Works) in seven volumes (from 2008 to 2019) confirmed the multiple significant connections between the different literary modalities cultivated by the Salamanca author.

"El cuento de nunca acabar": A Poetics of the essay

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This study analyzes the essay El cuento de nunca acabar as a poetics of the genre that Carmen Martin Gaite develops as she writes. It examines both the internal structure of her narrative thought and the external form of its fragmentary nature. By linking her essayistic approach to the discursive tension of the self as a form of experiential writing, this study argues that the book establishes Carmen Martín Gaite as the great essayist of her generation, offering a highly original perspective on the genre.

The "Cuadernos de todo" of 1974-75: a fruitful re-reading

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This paper examines a turning point in the creative evolution of Carmen Martín Gaite: in her Cuadernos de todo from 1974-1975, she undertakes a rereading and rewriting of her notebooks from the 1960s. This rereading is directly involved in the genesis of El cuento de nunca acabar (1983) and inspires a meta-literary reflection on notebooks as a creative tool, which transforms them into narrative material.

"El proceso de Macanaz" by Carmen Martín Gaite: the Forging of a Style

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In the 1960s, in France, in the field of the new historiography represented by the journal Annales, the debate on the narrative nature of history arose. With an affinity for this controversial approach, Carmen Martín Gaite researched the role of a precursor of the Age of Enlightenment, persecuted by the Inquisition, and introduced a particular form of writing amidst many theoretical and pragmatic doubts. With her double competence as a historian and novelist, after a meticulous archival work, in 1969 she published El proceso de Macanaz. Historia de un empapelamiento, a non-fictional political biography in an uncommon style. This work aims to demonstrate that the daring use of first-person enunciation and of both informal and literary register does not affect the referential veracity of the work. Anticipating the blending of heterogeneous literary genres, El proceso de Macanaz went through several editions during the author’s lifetime and is still being published.

“I have finally understood it”. Metaliterary reading of “De su ventana a la mía” (1987)

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This article proposes a metaliterary reading of the final text in the volume Desde la ventana (1987), entitled “De su ventana a la mía”, whose genre ambiguity is evocative of Martín Gaite’s work. It will be shown how it dialogues with the preceding conferences in the aforementioned volume and, in general, with the literary thought that Martín Gaite articulates in her essays. By means of a semiotic discursive analysis, we will attempt to demonstrate that the unfolding of the mother and her window “escapes” are a mise en abyme both of the writing process and of the reading process.

“Como si fueran trozos de espejo”: Autobiographism, Photography and Self-Representation in Carmen Martín Gaite’s "Collages"

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Based on the conception of photography as a variant of the mirror, this article examines some collages made by Carmen Martín Gaite in which the author introduces photographs from her archive. The observation of these compositions, integrated into her personal writings as a visual aspect of autobiography, allows to delimit a particular form of self-representation. In this way, the writer reveals the identity dynamics inherent in her literary work and interpersonal relationships.

Time and mistime of the “Generación del mediosiglo”. "On Esperando el porvenir" (1994)

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Starting from the value of Esperando el porvenir in understanding post-war sensitivity, I revisit some of its observations and complement them with others that shift the book towards a generational portrait. The focus of this work –primarily a tribute– is the impact that Ignacio Aldecoa’s death had on Martín Gaite, as well as the desire for intergeneration dialogue that guided the author. After addressing the coordinates of the mediosiglo and addressing its historical vicissitudes, I connect Esperando el porvenir with other titles intended to preserve and transmit the memoir of the generation, plagued by a sense of obsolescence that Aldecoa was one of the first to name.

‘Strange Girls’ Speak Out: Carmen Martín Gaite’s Transition-Era Literary Reviews of Works by Spanish Women

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As is well documented in Carmen Martín Gaite. Tirando del hilo (artículos 1949-2000), edited by José Teruel and published by Siruela in 2006, and in Agua pasada (1993), Carmen Martín Gaite actively and consistently practiced the art of literary criticism through her writing career. In particular, her weekly Diario 16 articles (1976-80) reveal the author’s deep engagement with literary analysis and her understanding of cultural and political changes during this time, which also coincides with the Salamanca author’s increased visibility on the world literature stage. This study analyzes, through the time period of the “Transition” and the lens of Second Wave feminism, Martín Gaite’s articles that serve as book reviews of works by other Spanish women. In particular, this article examines the following: (1) the selection of Spanish women authors whose works are treated by Martín Gaite over this four-year time period; (2) the mention (or lack thereof) of the politics of the time and specifically of feminism; (3) the structure and tone of the reviews; (4) the support and solidarity expressed in Martín Gaite’s articles; (5) Martín Gaite’s vision as a cultural agent.

Toponymy in Quevedo’s bucolic poetry

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This article aims to study the function of onomastics in Quevedo’s pastoral poetry, especially, focusing on the analysis of toponymy, in relation to the bucolic tradition. The examination of this area, through the hydronyms and oronyms, will allow us to notice how the author consciously handles the onomastics resource, always at the service of this poetic subgenre. It will also reveal some possible literary influences which transcend the sphere of the pastoral, such as love poetry, historiography, mythology and the Bible.

The discursive status of Abya Yala’s literatures

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The present work proposes to reflect on the discursive status of the indigenous literatures of Abya Yala in order to approach them as expressions of “poietic re-existence” against ontological and epistemic hierarchies dictated by Western literary traditions. Following the proposals for semantic decolonization of textual codes, we offer to think the oral textus not as a regressive derivation of litterae, but as the tissue that complements the written tesitura; therefore, we consider different levels of texts, broadening the criteria that define ‘intertextual’ practices. Likewise, this works problematizes the anthropological concept of ‘ethnicity’ applied to indigenous literatures, by orienting our argumentation towards the discursive universe of current Mapuche literature.

City and public space in the poetry of the mid-century: Ángel González, Carmen Martín Gaite and María Beneyto

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The work proposes to study the poetic work of three central authors of the so-called “Spanish mid-century” –Ángel González, María Beneyto and Carmen Martín Gaite– whose centenary of birth is commemorated this year. In their productions it is possible to observe different modulation around spaces and the relationship of the poetic subject with the diverse territories that it inhabits and poetizes. From the “urban landscapes” of the Asturian, which determine a matrix of urban poetry that runs through his poetry collections in a historicist key, both as a testimonial and ironic one; passing through the suffocating interior and provincial worlds that clearly mark the initial poems of Martín Gaite and end up in the New York city as a site of identity searches; to the vein of urban poetry that renews in Beneyto’s work the plural facets of the subject that determined her early work, and turns towards the city, its actors and spaces most relegated in the social line of her production. Movements and displacements that concern both his and her poetic sayings and the place of the author and the female authors in the sociological map, determining their figures as writers in the literary field and, in the case of Beneyto and Martín Gaite, their place as women and as poets in the complex post-war cultural field.

Luis de Góngora, Laura Dolfi (ed.), La costanza d’Isabella

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Luis de Góngora, La costanza d’Isabella, nuova traduzione e cura di Laura Dolfi, Napoli, Liguori Editore, 2024, 334 pp. ISBN 978-8820770150

Antonio Enríquez Gómez, Política angélica

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Antonio Enríquez Gómez, Política angélica. Sobre el gobierno que se debe tener con los reducidos a la fe católica y con los que se apartaron de ella, edición crítica, estudio y notas de Felice Gambin, Huelva, Universidad de Huelva, “Bibliotheca montaniana” 44, 2024, 268 pp. ISBN 978-8410326040

Benito Pérez Galdós, Elettra, studio di Victoria Galván-González e Carmen Márquez-Montes

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Benito Pérez Galdós, Elettra, studio di Victoria Galván-González e Carmen Márquez-Montes, traduzione di Angela Moro, Pisa, Edizioni ETS, 2024, 253 pp. ISBN 978-8846769442

Pedro Salinas, Poesie

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Pedro Salinas, Poesie, Matteo Lefèvre (ed.), Milano, Garzanti, 2024, 579 pp. ISBN 978-8811006688

José María Micó, L’equilibrio impossibile

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José María Micó, L’equilibrio impossibile, traduzione e cura di Pietro Taravacci, Venezia, Molesini, 2025, 224 pp.
ISBN 979-1281270169

Federica Rocco (ed.), La rappresentazione dello stigma nella letteratura (e il cinema) di lingua spagnola

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Federica Rocco (ed.), La rappresentazione dello stigma nella letteratura (e il cinema) di lingua spagnola, Pisa, ETS, 2022, 336 pp. ISBN 9788846764010