Silent Souls and Other Stories (Paperback)


Caterina Albert i ParadAA-s (1869-1966) began her career with a scandal. Her dramatic monologue "The Infanticide," narrated by a young woman, won prizes and garnered the attention of the Catalan literary world, but its harsh theme drew outrage when the drama's anonymous author was revealed to be a woman. In the tradition of George Eliot, George Sand, and other controversial women authors, Albert assumed a man's name, VAA-ctor CatalAA . She continued to write unflinching narratives, mostly in Catalan, of the people and life around her, producing a body of work still enlisted today to help the Catalan language resist the dominance and encroachment of peninsular Spanish.
Albert shares with her contemporaries Anton Chekhov and Emilia Pardo BazAAn an intense interest in the psychological development of characters and in narrative strategies, and the short stories collected here highlight her range of style and grasp of human nature. Kathleen McNerney provides an introduction to recent Catalan political and literary history, in which she contextualizes Albert's themes, feminism, and formal techniques.

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Caterina Albert i ParadAA-s (1869-1966) began her career with a scandal. Her dramatic monologue "The Infanticide," narrated by a young woman, won prizes and garnered the attention of the Catalan literary world, but its harsh theme drew outrage when the drama's anonymous author was revealed to be a woman. In the tradition of George Eliot, George Sand, and other controversial women authors, Albert assumed a man's name, VAA-ctor CatalAA . She continued to write unflinching narratives, mostly in Catalan, of the people and life around her, producing a body of work still enlisted today to help the Catalan language resist the dominance and encroachment of peninsular Spanish.
Albert shares with her contemporaries Anton Chekhov and Emilia Pardo BazAAn an intense interest in the psychological development of characters and in narrative strategies, and the short stories collected here highlight her range of style and grasp of human nature. Kathleen McNerney provides an introduction to recent Catalan political and literary history, in which she contextualizes Albert's themes, feminism, and formal techniques.

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Imprint

Modern Language Association of America

Country of origin

United States

Series

Texts and Translations

Release date

2018

Availability

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

First published

December 2013

Authors

Editors

Dimensions

229 x 152mm (L x W)

Format

Paperback

Pages

155

ISBN-13

978-1-60329-042-5

Barcode

9781603290425

Categories

LSN

1-60329-042-7



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