"Silent Souls" and Other Stories

Caterina Albert i Paradís (1869-1966) began her career with a scandal. Her dramatic monologue ""The Infanticide,"" delivered by a young woman, won prizes and garnered the attention of the Catalan literary world, but its harsh theme drew outrage when the anonymous author was revealed to be a woman. In the tradition of George Eliot, George Sand, and other controversial women authors, Albert had assumed a man's name, Víctor Català. She continued to write unflinching narratives, mostly in Catalan, of the people and life around her, producing a body of work still enlisted today to help the Catalan language resist the dominance of Peninsular Spanish.Albert shares with her contemporaries Anton Chekhov and Emilia Pardo Bazán an intense interest in the psychological development of characters and in narrative strategies, and the short stories collected here highlight her range of style and grasp of human nature. Kathleen McNerneys introduction contextualizes recent Catalan political and literary history as well as Alberts themes, feminism, and formal techniques.

Autor:
Kathleen McNerney (translator))

Características técnicas:

• Tamaño cerrado 140 x 216 mm
• 190 páginas interiores
• Tapa rústica
• Encuadernación lomo cuadrado

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