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"I thought, 'It's useless to race if we always have to travel the same incomprehensible road of our personality.' Some creatures were born to live, others to work, others to watch life. I had a small, miserable role as spectator. Impossible to get out of it. Impossible to free myself”. This is one of my favorite paragraphs on Nada, by Carmen Laforet. A few years ago, when I reread the novel, I noticed these sentences that I loved so much could also have been an accurate synopsis of my first book, Las niñas prodigio. A story set in a completely different time, in different circumstances, but of a character who, in some ways, could be a postmodern version of Carmen Laforet’s Andrea. That’s why I would like to talk about how the protagonist of Las niñas prodigio is one of the multiple branches of Andrea, that main teenager character of Spanish literature. 

This talk is part of the Spanish 251 literature course with Professor Miguel Caballero. For more details, please email miguel.caballero@northwestern.edu. 

The talk will be in Spanish.