Life-writing in Carmen Martín Gaite's Cuadernos de todo and her novels of the 1990s

Published in 2013 by Tamesis, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer, this scholarly work by Maria-José Blanco López de Lerma explores the intersection of autobiography and fiction in the career of Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite. The text analyzes how Gaite utilized her personal notebooks, the 'Cuadernos de todo,' to inform the narrative structures and thematic concerns of her final novels, which were released during the 1990s. It is situated within the field of Hispanic studies, focusing on the evolution of narrative voice and the subjective experience of memory in contemporary Spanish literature.

The book is a piece of literary criticism aimed at academic audiences and researchers of 20th-century Iberian letters. By tracing the development of Gaite's later style, Blanco López de Lerma examines the author's transition from traditional storytelling to more fragmented, reflexive formats that blurred the lines between private record-keeping and public prose. As a specialized monograph, it contributes to the broader scholarly effort to document Gaite's intellectual legacy and the lasting impact of the 'Generation of '50' on the Spanish literary canon.