Carmen de Burgos
Three novellas: Confidencias, La mujer frĂa and Puñal de claveles
Edited by Abigail Lee Six
Book Information
- Format: eBook
- ISBN: 978-1-7849-9778-6
- Published Date: May 2016
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 discusiĂłn', 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 frĂa 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 NĂjar', Federico GarcĂa Lorca drew on both stories for his Bodas de sangre.