Los amores de Hortensia, that initiates the cycle of novels by
Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (1842-1909), owes some of its
characters' attributes of extreme sensibility, beauty and
intelligence to the longevity of Romanticism in Latin America
during the nineteenth-century. Yet, the protagonist's search for
independence, her intellectual superiority, and above all, her
lucid understanding of the dynamics of gender and class within the
asphyxiating atmosphere of Lima's upper-crust society, transgress
the limits of the romantic heroine and plant her firmly in the
tradition of the naturalistic narrative. Her tragic destiny is
sealed with a marriage of convenience at an early age. She
discovers true love, but also deception, selfishness and the basest
of instincts among those who surround her. After almost 125 years
of neglect, we offer this edition of the first novel By Cabello de
Carbonera, as an indispensable text for Latin American and gender
studies scholars and students to explore the complex relationship
the author held with the realist and naturalist movements of the
nineteenth-century. There has been much uncertainty about its date
of publication. It was first published in Lima in the newspaper, La
Nacion, (1887), and later on that same year, in book form, by the
Imprenta de Torres Aguirre. Ismael Pinto Vargas, her most recent
and thorough biographer, concluded in 2003 that the novel had been
published in Paris by the journal, El Correo de Ultramar, surely
before the publication's demise in early 1886. His conjectures are
supported by none other than the author herself in her dedication
of her novel, Sacrificio y recompensa (1886) to her friend and
mentor, the Argentinean writer, Juana Manuela Gorriti. This edition
confirms his findings, and echoes the renewed interest in the works
of Cabello de Carbonera as pioneer of the realist and naturalist
novel in Latin America.
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