When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that’s what I thought then.

Carmen Laforetwas 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 Jose Cela with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte.