An exploration of Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite’s religious outlook through the inner journeys of five female characters.
For Martín Gaite, a truly religious, or spiritual, perspective requires conscious attention to the products of the unconscious (dreams, images, memories, premonitions), followed by reflection and action, as well as a similar attentiveness and responsiveness to external events both large and small. This reconnection of the supernatural and day-to-day worlds also involves descent to the unconscious – the way to wholeness – as depicted in so many myths and fairy tales, including those which Martín Gaite used to retell or enhance the works analysed in this book:
Sleeping Beauty,
The Little Mermaid,
Amor and Psyche,
Demeter and Persephone, and
the Descent of the Goddess Inanna.
Looking at the extent to which these female characters attend to, reflect on, and respond to their dreams, images, memories and events, the analysis suggests that Martín Gaite uses her stories to try to communicate both the road to her own enlightenment and warnings about paths that lead away from this.
Tabla de materias
Chapter 1: In Spirit and Truth
Chapter 2: The Link has Broken: Matilde’s Dream in
El balneario
Chapter 3: When the Meaning is Lost: Death and Life in
Lo raro es vivir and
Irse de casa
Chapter 4: ¡Oh Inanna! No investigues los ritos del mundo inferior: Mariana’s Descent to the Underworld in
Nubosidad variable
Chapter 5: Looking for the Lost Daughter: Sofía’s Search in
Nubosidad variable
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Sobre el autor
ANNE-MARIE STORRS has a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh (U.K.). This is her second book.
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