Mistral Gabriela Mistral

Madwomen (eBook, PDF)

The "Locas mujeres" Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition
Übersetzer: Randall Couch, Couch

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her native Chile and an international diplomat whose boundary-defying sexuality still challenges scholars, Gabriela Mistral (1889 1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in Latin American literature of the last century. The Locas mujeres poems collected here are among Mistral s most complex and compelling, exploring facets of the self in extremis poems marked by the wound of blazing catastrophe and its aftermath of mourning. From disquieting humor to balladlike lyricism to folkloric wisdom, these pieces enact a tragic sense of life, depicting madwomen who are anything but mad. Strong and intensely human, Mistral s poetic women confront impossible situations to which no sane response exists. This groundbreaking collection presents poems from Mistral s final published volume as well as new editions of posthumous work, featuring the first English-language appearance of many essential poems. Madwomen promises to reveal a profound poet to a new generation of Anglophone readers while reacquainting Spanish readers with a stranger, more complicated madwoman than most have ever known.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780226531892
• Artikelnr.: 52979734

Autorenporträt

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) was a Chilean poet who became the first Latin American author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. She published many collections during her lifetime, including the well-known volume Sonetos de la Muerte.