We bring together in a single volume the captivating diaries of Rosa Chacel, a literary milestone of the twentieth century and a figure ahead of her time to be reclaimed.
The diaries of Rosa Chacel represent a landmark in twentieth-century Spanish literature. A work unparalleled for its ambitious portrayal of a life, with all that it entails: reflection on one’s own work, on the task and role of the writer, from creation to impact, but also the experience of exile ―the exiles: the country, the language, the literary system― and of return, the intimate bond with those around her. Texts of light and shadow and rawness, in which nothing is hidden, but that encompass much more than confession: the powerful and bittersweet testimony of a writer who also proved herself one of the great prose writers of her time.
With this new edition, we offer a renewed commercial life for the three volumes of her diaries, Alcancía: Ida, Vuelta and Estación Termini, twenty years after their inclusion in the complete works of the Jorge Guillén Foundation. This edition ―with a foreword and notes by the writer Elena Medel― seeks to reclaim these pages as a complete literary work, on par for example with her novelistic output, and also to reclaim a writer who, due to extraliterary circumstances, is often omitted from generational accounts and other overviews.
