Sara Gallardo (1931–1988)
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Crédit image: Sara Gallardo in 1977.
Œuvres de Sara Gallardo
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Secret Weavers: Stories of the Fantastic by Women Writers of Argentina and Chile (1991) — Contributeur — 23 exemplaires
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023) — Contributeur — 18 exemplaires
Argentinische Kurzgeschichten / Narradores argentinos. by ANTONIO DI BENEDETTO, ADOLFO BIOY CASARES, JORGE LUIS BORGES,… (1991) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Gallardo, Sara
- Nom légal
- Gallardo Drago Mitre, Sara
- Date de naissance
- 1931-12-23
- Date de décès
- 1988-06-14
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Argentina
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Argentina
- Lieu de naissance
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Lieu du décès
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Lieux de résidence
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
La Cumbre, Córdoba - Professions
- Journalist
Writer
writer of children's books - Relations
- Cané, Miguel (great-grandfather)
Pico Estrada, Luis (husband)
Murena, Héctor (husband)
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- Œuvres
- 13
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 165
- Popularité
- #128,476
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 32
- Langues
- 5
- Favoris
- 1
Originally published in Argentina in 1958, the book was just recently translated into English for the first time. It is apparently, from what I've read, considered one of the best Argentinian novels and an influential one there. I read about it in The New Yorker and The New York Review before ordering a copy.
The story is about Nefer, who is the sixteen year old daughter of laborers in rural Argentina. She is about three months pregnant at the start of the story, after having been raped at her sister's wedding party. She has been hiding her pregnancy from everyone, but she knows that she won't be able to do that for much longer, and she is afraid of what will happen to her.
She decides to visit a local healer woman, but cannot bring herself to tell her why she is there, and she refuses the woman's advances when she intuits the reason. Her family soon finds out.
The book is very short, only 114 undersized pages. The story progresses in relatively short chapters, jumping ahead from scene to scene, covering only about two week's time. The writing is excellent. Here's an example:
“Maybe it would be better to sit up, kick off the covers, lean against the rough wall, run her hand across her forehead, her damp hair, and close her eyes. The sounds mingling with the darkness are too intrusive: the heavy tick-tock of the alarm clock, Alcira’s breathing, her parents snoring in the next room, the restless dogs in the night, the near and far off roosters, her own heart pumping, rising to her throat, suffocating her. And on top of all this, time pacing ceaselessly past her bedroom door, tromping through the night, the world, carrying with it all that will come to pass, things that will come to pass and cannot be stopped.”… (plus d'informations)