Otro paso ‘fuera del tiempo’: Al volver la esquina de Carmen Laforet

Abstract

This work deals with Carmen Laforet’s novel Al volver la esquina, which was published posthumous by Destino in 2004 when the writer herself died. In this novel the organization and the complexity of the narrative text represent a new and interesting stage in the stylistic evolution of Laforet’s writing. This article wants to analyse some aspects of the narrative structure of the novel (focusing, time dealing and characterization) in order to include it in the unfinished trilogy, called «Tres pasos fuera del tiempo», of which it is its second part, after the publication of La insolación in 1963.