Rosa Chacel, Author, Carol Maier, Photographer, Carol Maier, Translator University of Nebraska Press $27.95 (201p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1456-9
In this dynamic work, Chacel paints a powerful and disturbing portrait of a precocious girl's coming of age. First published in Spain in 1945, and appearing in English for the first time in a clear and sensitive translation, the story reads like a...
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Rosa Chacel, Author, Carol Maier, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Carol Maier. Univ. of Nebraska/Bison $29.95 (656p) ISBN 978-0-8032-6364-2
Chacel's modernist novel, published in her native Spain in 1960, takes encyclopedic stock of the “intimate life of ideas.” Santiago Hernández, a bourgeois Argentine, writes a rambling “confession” that opens with...
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Rosa Chacel, Author, D. A. DeMers, Translator, Susan Kirkpatrick, Introduction by University of Nebraska Press $40 (283p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1449-1
Chacel's autobiographical novel, a product of Spain's intellectual flowering of the 1920s and 1930s, will enchant lovers of beautiful and complex prose. The author paints a portrait of two artists as young women in Madrid at the turn of the century.
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