Memoirs of Leticia Valle

By Rosa Chacel

Book Overview

Memorias de Leticia Valle (1945) is the fictionalized diary of an eleven-year-old girl who records an "inconceivable" seduction. Set in early twentieth-century Spain, the events she chronicles take place in the village of Simancas, site of a castle that houses a famous archive. Leticia, the archivist, and his wife--Leticia's piano teacher--are the actors in this drama, which is rehearsed in a purely introspective way. The seduction resembles that of a thirteen-year-old girl in Dostoyevsky's The Possessed, but it does not result in Leticia's mental or physical destruction. Rather, it acts as the catalyst for a deep questioning and exploration of life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803263600
• ISBN13: 9780803263604
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 9.0"