Novel
The House of the Angel
La casa del ángel
Beatriz Guido · 1954
Synopsis
Ana Castro, fourteen, grows up in a house in Belgrano with her two sisters, a deeply religious mother and a nanny who tells her about hell. Her father is involved in politics, and Pablo Aguirre, a deputy with a reputation as a seducer, visits them; he has challenged an opponent to a duel, and the duel is to be held in the house. Cristina Mucci, in La Nación, notes that atmosphere matters more there than plot: a residence named after the statue on its terrace, and a girl raised in rigid principles confronted with the awakening of her body.
Context
The author's first novel, published by Emecé in 1954, received that publisher's prize, and the action is set in the twenties, according to Biografías y Vidas. The filmmaker who was to marry her made a film of it in 1957, the first of their eighteen joint works, and this film drew a million spectators, according to Mucci. Norma Maynard translated it into French for Julliard in 1957, and McGraw-Hill published it in English the same year.
Who it is for
A novel in Spanish, more about atmosphere than plot; translated into French and English as early as 1957.
Prizes and reception
Awarded the Emecé Prize, in 1954 or 1955 depending on the sources, and adapted for the cinema as early as 1957.
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