Publication

2016-05-01 - Manchester University Press

Language

English

Word Count

42,500 words, Guess

Page Count

170 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL27699785M
  • ISBN-139780719097119
  • ISBN-100719097118
  • OCLC Control Number946974484
  • Amazon0719097118

Classifications

  • LCCPQ6603.U724

Description

Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932), an influential journalist, socio-political activist, and a key literary figure in the cultural ferment of pre-war Madrid, is currently being rediscovered, having languished in a long and regrettable oblivion during the Franco years. This scholarly edition of three stories by de Burgos includes the unabridged texts, vocabulary, notes, chronology, bibliography, 'temas de debate y discusión', and a critical introduction. Confidencias is the fictional diary of a young woman, describing her first adulterous relationship and exploiting the narratological possibilities of the diary form. La mujer fría is a vampire story featuring perhaps the very first pitiable vampire, or at least one of the earliest examples of this type, whilst ingeniously maintaining undecidability as to whether the protagonist is supernatural. Puñal de claveles narrates a wedding-day elopement. Inspired by the real-life 'Crimen de Níjar', Federico García Lorca drew on both stories for his Bodas de sangre.

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Other Editions

  • Carmen de Burgos : Three novellas: Confidencias, La mujer fría and Puñal de clavelesPaperbackManchester University Press2016-05-01

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