Memoirs of Leticia Valle - European Women Writers Series
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Memorias de Leticia Valle (1945) is the fictionalized diary of an eleven-year-old girl who records an "inconceivable" seduction. Set in early twentieth-century Spain, the events she chronicles take place in the village of Simancas, site of a castle that houses a famous archive. Leticia, the archivist, and his wife-Leticia's piano teacher-are the actors in this drama, which is rehearsed in a purely introspective way. The seduction resembles that of a thirteen-year-old girl in Dostoyevsky's The Possessed, but it does not result in Leticia's mental or physical destruction. Rather, it acts as the catalyst for a deep questioning and exploration of life.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780803214569 |
Publisher: | Nebraska |
Imprint: | University of Nebraska Press |
Pub date: | 01 Jan 1994 |
DEWEY: | 863 |
DEWEY edition: | 20 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 199 |
Weight: | 481g |
Height: | 234mm |
Width: | 146mm |
Spine width: | 12mm |