Carmen Laforet Y Díaz was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada continued the Spanish Tremendismo literary style begun by Camilo José Cela with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte.
Sin duda una novela feminista, retrata a la mujer con el telón de fonde de la posguerra. Llena de mujeres poliédricas y personajes masculinos secundarios. Magnífica la descripción de Barcelona, parece como si pintará un cuatro impresionista.