caa a22 4500 463200543 CHVBK 20180405153111.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-006-9004-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-006-9004-1 Celaya Beatriz Francisco de Quevedo 1, 8-B, 18006, Granada, Spain aut El Amor Es Una Tara: Cuadernos De Todo , De Carmen Martín Gaite [Elektronische Daten] [Beatriz Celaya] The day the Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000) turned 36, her daughter Marta gave her a notebook, which she called Cuaderno de todo - notebook for everything. It was the first notebook of many, and in them Martín Gaite wrote of personal events, her thoughts and reflections, literary notes, observations and drafts for her novels, and other intellectual works. Maria Vittoria Calvi prepared an extensive selection which was published in October, 2002. The following analysis focuses on the concepts of love and sexuality as they appear in Cuadernos de todo, and more in particularly, upon the concept of an erotic or sexual relationship. The study establishes relevant connections between her notebook writing and her essays, articles, and novels. I argue that, without being aware, Martín Gaite perceives a heterosexual relationship which never allows the active expression of a female subject. She frequently describes love relationships as traps and deceits for both men and women, as egos selfishly fight to reflect themselves upon a partner. However, she also concedes the dominant role to men in these relationships both explicitly and implicitly. How does she try to resolve this contradiction? Writing does allow Martín Gaite to communicate with others, not love relationships; therefore, heterosexual love is distant, unsuccessful, or absent in her work. Sex and sexual practices do not appear but tangentially because her authority as a writer - indeed, her voice as a woman - would otherwise disappear. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/2(2007-04-01), 221-241 0028-2677 91:2<221 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9004-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9004-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Celaya Beatriz Francisco de Quevedo 1, 8-B, 18006, Granada, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/2(2007-04-01), 221-241 0028-2677 91:2<221 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer