Novel
La estación que sigue al verano
Not translated into English
Julieta Pinto · 1969
Synopsis
A novel which, according to the author's own presentations and the critics, challenges the false values of a degraded bourgeoisie: a world of tinsel, empty, whose hypocrisy and pettiness destroy its own characters. No summary of the plot has been found; the sources confine themselves to this portrait of a well-off social world, in contrast to the peasants and outcasts who people the rest of the author's work.
Context
Published in 1969, the novel precedes the collections in which the author turns to the marginal figures of the countryside, the first of which came out the following year. Selena Millares ranks it among the books that secured her reputation. In 2021, for the centenary of her birth, the university press of San José reissued it in a four-volume series, each volume opened by texts from a friend, a fellow writer and a group of women scholars devoted to her writing.
Who it is for
A novel in Spanish, with no French or English translation found, available in a recent university edition.
Prizes and reception
National Novel Prize in 1969, the first of three awards of that name received by the author; reissued for her centenary.
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