“The strange dwarf”: Convergence between C. J. Cela’s The Rose and Laura Restrepo

Abstract

This study approaches childhood memories as the genesis of the literary by studying the work of the Spanish writer Camilo Jose Cela, La Rosa, in dialogue with his fictional universe. In the same perspective, the reflections of Colombian novelist Laura Restrepo, in her newspaper article “The strange dwarf”, are considered, where she stresses the importance of evoking childhood for writers and literary writing nowadays.