by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Antonio Ros de Olano · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422654988
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Autobiografía» is the memoir book by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and Antonio Ros de Olano (Círculo de Lectores, hardback, 183 p., in Spanish).
The volume brings together two autobiographical texts from the 19th century: writer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda reviews her literary vocation, her sentimental life and her uprootedness between Cuba and Spain, while Antonio Ros de Olano evokes in «Saltos de la memoria» his military experiences and the meaning of memory.
Published in 1996 in the Maestros Modernos Hispánicos collection, directed by Eduardo Mendoza and with a prologue by Sergio Beser.
For readers of 19th-century Spanish and Latin American literature interested in autobiographies, memoirs and romantic women's writing.
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga was a 19th-century Cuban-born Spanish writer. Born in Puerto Príncipe, now Camagüey, she lived in Cuba until she was 22. Her family moved to Spain in 1836, where she started writing as La Peregrina and lived there until 1859, when she moved back to Cuba with her second husband until his death in 1863, after which she moved back to Spain. She died in Madrid in 1873 from diabetes at the age of 58.
