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Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Friday, August 12, 2016

María

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This postcard portrait of a woman who signed only her first name was addressed to one Señora Doña Leonora de Esteban in Castro Urdiales in n...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

The Boy Who Was a Friend of the Devil (Ana María Matute)

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Everyone, at school, at home, in the street, told him cruel and ugly things about the Devil, and in his catechism book he saw him in Hell, e...
Friday, October 02, 2015

Faithful objects

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María Paz Otuño, writing of the late Spanish novelist Ana María Matute: Her idea of order was her own; with her writings she was very meti...
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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Bonfires

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At first glance, Ana María Matute's 1960 novel Primera memoria seems much of a piece with the narratives with which she ended her car...
Friday, November 14, 2014

Childhood

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I seem to be reading the late Ana María Matute in reverse chronological order, having started with her last, uncompleted, novel, Demonios ...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Last words

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No quiero ser un espectro más de esta casa... When she died earlier this year, the Spanish writer Ana María Matute left behind an unfini...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

A poet looks back

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Back in the late 1970s I read this translation by the late Gabriel Berns of what is actually only the first volume (comprising Books One a...
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