Elisabeth Mulder wrote Una sombra entre los dos (The Shadow Between Them, 1934) at the time of the Second Spanish Republic, when women started entering the public sphere, gaining the right to vote and access to university education and redefining the place of women in society. It was during this period that women began to symbolise the modern era, gaining independence and occupying positions previously reserved exclusively for men. The author depicts the atmosphere of the time through the development of literary characters, in which female characters take the lead, while men mostly serve only to support the motif of the novel, which is the search for one's identity in that period. This development, which is based primarily on the level of inner experience, is inseparable from the tectonic shifts in society at the time, and the subject of her treatment thus also becomes an understanding of these changes and the place of women in it.
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