This author brought a powerfully eroticized female voice to post-Civil War Spanish literature. Her works, distinguished by syntactically convoluted and multi-layered prose, employ a relentless stream-of-consciousness reminiscent of Proust and Woolf. By openly addressing lesbianism for the first time in the history of Spanish narrative, her metafictional approach often used emblematic lesbian characters to delineate the limits and possibilities of female sexual autonomy, making her a precursor in this regard.
Poetic and erotic, El mismo mar de todos los veranos (The Same Sea As Every Summer) was originally published in Spain in 1978, three years after the death of Franco and in the same year that government censorship was abolished. Now its complex moods and rhythms have been caught in an English translation by Margaret E. W. Jones that has won the Kayden National Translation Award.