Yo Soy Venus - Mujica, Barbara
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In 1619, Diego Velázquez is an emerging painter in the Sevillian academy of his father-in-law, Francisco Pacheco, but his mind is on painting large canvases. His ambition soon takes him to the court of Philip IV, where he soon rises to prominence. Meanwhile, the country is immersed in military defeats and national chaos. As Velázquez receives privileges he becomes aware of the decadence of the court. Torn between family duty and the easy seductions around power, Velázquez decides to carry out the most dangerous painting, which could lead him directly to the clutches of the Inquisition: the…mehr

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In 1619, Diego Velázquez is an emerging painter in the Sevillian academy of his father-in-law, Francisco Pacheco, but his mind is on painting large canvases. His ambition soon takes him to the court of Philip IV, where he soon rises to prominence. Meanwhile, the country is immersed in military defeats and national chaos. As Velázquez receives privileges he becomes aware of the decadence of the court. Torn between family duty and the easy seductions around power, Velázquez decides to carry out the most dangerous painting, which could lead him directly to the clutches of the Inquisition: the naked Venus, looking at herself in the mirror. A masterfully executed historical novel that recreates the historical context of a corrupt court and a country on the verge of collapse. A historical novel that illuminates the passions and scandals of one of the best - if not the best - Spanish painter. Mujicas prose is vigorous and intense, and the story is paradoxically both dark and illuminating.
Autorenporträt
Bárbara Mujica es novelista, cuentista y ensayista, además de profesora emérita de literatura española en la Universidad de Georgetown, en Washington, D.C. Su novela «Frida (Mi hermana Frida)» fue un bestseller internacional y se ha publicado en 18 idiomas. Otra obra de ficción, «Sister Teresa (Hermana Teresa)» se adaptó al teatro por el Actor's Studio, en Hollywood. Su última novela, «Miss del Río», basada en la vida de la estrella de cine mexicana Dolores del Río (Graydon House/HarperCollins, 2022) es semifinalista en el 2022 ScreenCraft Cinematic Novel Competition y nombrada uno de los mejores libros del año por el Library Journal y una de las cinco mejores novelas históricas por el Washington Post. Es autora de tres colecciones de cuentos; Imagining Iraq, Sanchez across the Street y Far from my Mother's Home (esta última fue publicada en español en 2018). También ha publicado numerosos libros académicos, entre ellos Collateral Damage: Women Write about War (University of Virginia Press), Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform (Amsterdam University Press, Premió GEMELA por «el mejor libro del año sobre mujeres de la temprana modernidad»), Teresa de Ávila, Lettered Woman (Bucknell University Press), A New Anthology of Early Modern Spanish Theater: Play and Playtext (Yale University Press), and Women Writers of Early Modern Spain (Yale University Press). Sus artículos académicos han aparecido en numerosas publicaciones y colabora en distintos medios, entre los cuales The New York Times, The Washington Post y Américas. Es asimismo ganadora de Concurso Internacional de Ficción E.L. Doctorow, el Premio Pangolin, el Premio Theodore Christian Hoepfner, el Premio Pionero de Diálogo sobre la Diversidad, y cinco premios de la Sociedad de Escritores de Maryland.