Silent Souls and Other Stories

Caterina Albert (Author), Kathleen McNerney (Edited by)

9781603290425

Paperback / softback, published 1 April 2018

155 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.238 kg

“McNerney’s review of concepts relating to modernity and women’s writing in Spain alongside her discussion of Albert’s literary techniques make this […] a useful tool for graduate and undergraduate classrooms. Specialists will enjoy the fact that it debunks myths long perpetuated in Albert’s criticism, as it clarifies that Albert resided in rural as well as urban locales and wrote fiction featuring both back-drops.” – Kate Good, Bulletin of Spanish Studies

Caterina Albert i Paradís (1869-1966) began her career with a scandal. Her dramatic monologue ""The Infanticide,"" delivered by a young woman, won prizes and garnered the attention of the Catalan literary world, but its harsh theme drew outrage when the anonymous author was revealed to be a woman. In the tradition of George Eliot, George Sand, and other controversial women authors, Albert had assumed a man's name, Víctor Català. She continued to write unflinching narratives, mostly in Catalan, of the people and life around her, producing a body of work still enlisted today to help the Catalan language resist the dominance of Peninsular Spanish.