El grupo

The group is considered the best known -and controversial- work of the North American Mary McCarthy. Endowed with a strong autobiographical charge, when it was published in 1963, it constituted a succès de scandale, as it addressed subjects such as free love, socialism, contraception or abortion from an unprejudiced and clearly feminine point of view. In fact, its sale was banned in various countries because it was considered offensive to public morals. McCarthy takes us to interwar New York to portray the lives of eight recent college graduates from Vassar College, beginning with the marriage of one of them, Kay Strong, and ending with her funeral in 1940. Kay, "Pokey", "Dottie", "Lakey", Polly, Priss and Helena. Eight independent, restless, free women, at a time when what was expected of them was home, marriage and upbringing. A game of mirrors that will reveal a heartbreaking reality: only after surrendering to adult life and promising not to continue on the path traveled by their parents will they face the world for the first time.