La Correspondencia entre Carmen Martín Gaite y Juan Benet: ensayos de un género

The correspondence between Carmen Martín Gaite and Juan Benet (published in 2011) is one of the few collections of letters written by the authors of the 1950s. This volume allows the reader to reconstruct the features of a deep intellectual friendship, in the historical background of its strengthening and progressive dissolution. The letters stand out for the stylistic intentions and the metaliterary character of the reflections shared by the two writers, searching for new literary expressions. This paper aims to analyze some properties of the letters, as well as the discursive recontextualization offered by the present day edition.