Sacrificio y recompensa is the first Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera
work ever published. Entered in the literary contest organized by
the Ateneo de Lima in 1886, it earned its author the gold medal.
The publication in 1887 meant for Mercedes Cabello her recognition
by the Lima society as a writer, and the preliminary hints of a
style and attitude vis-a-vis the society that would become
exacerbated in her other writings, Los amores de Hortensia (1886);
Eleodora (1887); specially in Blanca Sol (Novela social) (1888) and
Las consecuencias (1890); and El conspirador (1892). There is a
character in Sacrificio y recompensa, Elisa, the beautiful putative
daughter of Estela's tutor, that can be regarded as the immediate
precedent of Blanca Sol: "Elisa was a Limea very Limea, though to
honor truth, she had all the defects, without the great virtues of
the women born in these fortunate places."and."she was no more than
a lively girl, with an active imagination, clear inteligence and a
precocious and unbriddled ambition, purely feminine ambition, to
flaunt, ascend, get noticed and grow above her humble condition."
The tale of the intertwined destinies of Alvaro Gonzlez, Estela
Guzmn and Catalina Montiel, depicted through the pen of the
"novelist who] must regard and extoll as unique means to bring unto
the reader's conscience the most useful and benefitial lesson
proposed by the realistic school" may, under the scope of the
following works of Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, be regarded as
the first attempt to shed light upon the feminine condition in Lima
at those times. "lacking other options they use matrimony to ascend
in the social pyramid." Faithful to her ensuing writings on theory
such as La novela moderna (1892), the author achieves in this work
what she says in the foreword: "stay appart from realism, as
understood by today's fashionable school, and search for the real
in the beauty of feelings, copying the movements of the soul, not
when it becomes vile and degraded, but when it elevates and becomes
noble." Sacrificio y recompensa is, thus, the best introduction to
Blanca Sol and her author.
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