This week I read Carmen Laforet’s work Nada, and here are some of my post-reading feelings.
Through this week’s reading of Nada, I learned about the desolate landscape of post-war Barcelona. Through the subjective and objective perspective of the protagonist, the author takes the protagonist’s family as the main object of description, creating a microcosm of the miserable post-war society at that time. The author’s expression is very delicate. The article contains a lot of reports of the scenery, which highlights the eerie atmosphere of the family and shows the protagonist’s rejection and fear of living here. The words of the article are straightforward, but the emotions revealed are meticulous and accurate. It’s easier to understand how the author feels and how things have gone.
The protagonist comes to Barcelona to complete her studies and seeks refuge from her relatives. Still, when she lives here, she gradually gets to know everyone who lives in the family and the unusual relationships between relatives. During the time she lived here, every day she spent seemed painful and unbearable, and the family members seemed to be ghosts lacking the vitality of life under her description. As a bystander, she observes the family’s disputes, the old grandmother, the terrible aunt, the grumpy uncle, and the aunt. She is entangled with her husband’s brother. The constant torture of the family makes the house’s atmosphere very depressing. Her campus life is not as good as imagined. However, she met a good friend, just the exchange on campus it difficult to dispel the loneliness in her heart. The relationship with a boy also ended without beginning because of his family conditions. Fortunately, In the end, Andrea had the opportunity to leave the city that had tormented her and embark on a new journey.
As I read this book, I also searched the context of the times. I can see that Bartholome was very depressed after the war. Most of the literary works advocated the existence of women in the family. The protagonist of Nada observes the flaws of this family model from the perspective of a bystander; she describes the involuntary nature of women living in such a family. This straightforward reality may awaken many women who have suffered in the family, making them aware of their situation. The protagonist’s courage to embark on a new path to pursue their dreams also gave people the courage to pursue their true selves.
My question for this article is: Do you think the friendship between the protagonist and his popular college classmate is equal? It looked as if she was in a state of escort.
This week I read Carmen Laforet’s work Nada, and here are some of my post-reading feelings.
Through this week’s reading of Nada, I learned about the desolate landscape of post-war Barcelona. Through the subjective and objective perspective of the protagonist, the author takes the protagonist’s family as the main object of description, creating a microcosm of the miserable post-war society at that time. The author’s expression is very delicate. The article contains a lot of reports of the scenery, which highlights the eerie atmosphere of the family and shows the protagonist’s rejection and fear of living here. The words of the article are straightforward, but the emotions revealed are meticulous and accurate. It’s easier to understand how the author feels and how things have gone.
The protagonist comes to Barcelona to complete her studies and seeks refuge from her relatives. Still, when she lives here, she gradually gets to know everyone who lives in the family and the unusual relationships between relatives. During the time she lived here, every day she spent seemed painful and unbearable, and the family members seemed to be ghosts lacking the vitality of life under her description. As a bystander, she observes the family’s disputes, the old grandmother, the terrible aunt, the grumpy uncle, and the aunt. She is entangled with her husband’s brother. The constant torture of the family makes the house’s atmosphere very depressing. Her campus life is not as good as imagined. However, she met a good friend, just the exchange on campus it difficult to dispel the loneliness in her heart. The relationship with a boy also ended without beginning because of his family conditions. Fortunately, In the end, Andrea had the opportunity to leave the city that had tormented her and embark on a new journey.
As I read this book, I also searched the context of the times. I can see that Bartholome was very depressed after the war. Most of the literary works advocated the existence of women in the family. The protagonist of Nada observes the flaws of this family model from the perspective of a bystander; she describes the involuntary nature of women living in such a family. This straightforward reality may awaken many women who have suffered in the family, making them aware of their situation. The protagonist’s courage to embark on a new path to pursue their dreams also gave people the courage to pursue their true selves.
This was an incredible book that, in my opinion, successfully portrays the unique impacts of war – specifically the Spanish civil war – on people and how they proceed with their lives following periods of vast conflict. Andrea’s family members have very distinct personalities that I believe have been heavily influenced by the atrocities they’ve […]
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“Nada” has an apocalyptic, oppressive, and hungry atmosphere. Our narrator, Andrea describes her family members as “ghostly women” (pg 6), as “elongated and somber” (pg 7), as “perverse people” (pg9) and her uncle Juan’s face as a “skull” (pg 6). These characters all seem to be destroyed and hollow after the war. Even the house […]
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