Hidden Path - Softcover

Fortún, Elena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997228784 ISBN 13: 9780997228786

Verlag: Swan Isle Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Set in early twentieth-century Spain, Hidden Path is a lyrical coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of a woman painter who struggles to find her way with art and with the women she loved. The novel is narrated in the first-person, following María Luisa as she reflects on her life from the turn of the twentieth century through the outset of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939). She recalls growing from an imaginative tomboy into a docile wife and mother before claiming her independence as a portrait painter in Madrid&;s bohemian and queer circles. Along the way, she introduces us to a lively cast of characters who both hinder and encourage her efforts to blaze her own path. The poetic and sensuous language of María Luisa&;s private reveries comingles with agile dialogue as the protagonist leads us through her life.

Best known in Spain as a writer of children&;s literature, Elena Fortún left this manuscript unpublished at the time of her death in 1952, as its semi-autobiographical content risked provoking homophobic backlash under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. The first Spanish edition appeared in 2016 and was hailed as Fortún&;s adult masterpiece, a previously unknown complement to her children&;s saga Celia and Her World. This edition, with Jeffrey Zamostny&;s sensitive and nuanced translation, marks the novel&;s first time appearing in any language aside from Spanish; it is also the first of Fortún&;s works to appear in English. With an insightful foreword by scholar Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles, this volume will be an influential contribution to women&;s studies, LGBT histories, and Spanish literature and culture.

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Elena Fortún (pen name of Encarnación Aragoneses Urquijo, Madrid, 1886-1952) is the author of the twenty-volume saga Celia and Her World (1929-1951), and her work created a link between pre- and post-Civil War generations of Spanish women writers. Jeffrey Zamostny is associate professor of Spanish at the University of West Georgia and co-editor, with Susan Larson, of Kiosk Literature of Silver Age Spain: Modernity and Mass Culture. 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Swan Isle Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0997228784
• ISBN 13: 9780997228786
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 386
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