Poetry
El precio de los sueños
Not translated into English
Josefina Plá · 1934
Synopsis
El precio de los sueños (The Price of Dreams): the author's first book, a collection of poems published in Asunción in 1934, seven years after her arrival in Paraguay, and in the same year as her departure for Spain.
Context
The book appeared during years that a study from the University of La Laguna describes as a time of isolation, when the country's poetic groups were scattered. Josefina Plá then became, with Hérib Campos Cervera and Augusto Roa Bastos, one of the figures of the generation of 40. Her early poems are included in the Poesías completas published in Asunción in 1996 by Miguel Ángel Fernández, with a prologue by Roa Bastos, who holds her poetry to be a living and founding writing.
Who it is for
For reading, in Spanish, the first poems of a great voice of twentieth-century Paraguayan poetry.
Prizes and reception
According to C. Mateo del Pino, some critics see in this book the starting point of the formal spareness and inner deepening of her poetry.
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