THE POETIC STATEMENT IN THE WORK OF CARMEN MARTIN GAITE

This article analyzes a mode in Carmen Martin Gaite's work which has received little critical attention: her poetry. And shows that it is not a marginal aspect, but rather that it complements and illuminates her narrative, essayistic and autobiographical texts, such as Cuadernos de todo. For Martin Gaite the poetic text, beyond the use of verse or prose, consists of a temporal treatment of human experience which eschews an image of time conceived as a continuum and focuses on the fundamental aspects of existence.