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Hidden Path (Paperback)
Elena Fortun, Jeffrey Zamostny, Nuria Capdevila-Argue
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R776
Discovery Miles 7 760
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Set in early twentieth-century Spain, Hidden Path is a lyrical
coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of a woman painter
who struggles to find her way with art and with the women she
loved. The novel is narrated in the first-person, following Maria
Luisa as she reflects on her life from the turn of the twentieth
century through the outset of the Second Spanish Republic
(1931-1939). She recalls growing from an imaginative tomboy into a
docile wife and mother before claiming her independence as a
portrait painter in Madrid's bohemian and queer circles. Along the
way, she introduces us to a lively cast of characters who both
hinder and encourage her efforts to blaze her own path. The poetic
and sensuous language of Maria Luisa's private reveries comingles
with agile dialogue as the protagonist leads us through her life.
Best known in Spain as a writer of children's literature, Elena
Fortun left this manuscript unpublished at the time of her death in
1952, as its semi-autobiographical content risked provoking
homophobic backlash under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. The
first Spanish edition appeared in 2016 and was hailed as Fortun's
adult masterpiece, a previously unknown complement to her
children's saga Celia and Her World. This edition, with Jeffrey
Zamostny's sensitive and nuanced translation, marks the novel's
first time appearing in any language aside from Spanish; it is also
the first of Fortun's works to appear in English. With an
insightful foreword by scholar Nuria Capdevila-Arguelles, this
volume will be an influential contribution to women's studies, LGBT
histories, and Spanish literature and culture.
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