Fiction heroines
The illustration of the covering is “The Viennese“ (1880), of Manet
It produces special satisfaction to me to comment on a book bought the same yesterday at balance price and that I suppose, therefore, out of the catalogs. It for two reasons: one, that I am not doing to him the promotion (although it would not have disadvantage in doing it to him to books, like the one that occupies us, of nature exclusively literary and therefore, directed to a minority); and two, that perhaps it collaborated to which some fan could still be done with a copy by very little money (in VIPS to 3 euros).
Heroines of Fiction (Editions of the Bronze, 1999) he gathers 12 articles devoted to some other feminine personages of the Literature: Emma Bovary, Ann Ozores, Dorothea Brooke, Casandra, Tristana, Eugenia Grandet, Carmen, duchess Sanseverina, missis Dalloway, Daisy Miller, the countess Olenska and Katrina (the least well-known, of writer Sally Salminen). Principal literary myth of the XXth century lacks other personages like the Karenina or Lolita, especially to the last one, but the selection is sufficiently representative.
In the epilogue, the publisher Mónica Monteys does an interesting reflection on the differences between the feminine personages of the nineteenth-century novel and those of the XXth century. The first ones live relegated to the concealment and to the silence, cannot show his knowledge and fight to survive his destination. There says Monteys that “is the incorporation of the knowledge to the feminine experience, and his declaration in the world, what unleashes the retake of position of the feminine personage of fiction“. Namely what does that the feminine personages of the XXth century, are already not heroines, but “sketches, breaks, remains of them“, since they adopt different positions opposite to the reality:“ In the modernity, already there are no literary personages capable of living through big passions, but through an oscillating surface where there come together perceptions, frames of mind and psychic representations“. It can be discussed that Freud is only the person in charge of the change, as the authoress of the epilogue seems to indicate, but it is undoubted that the influence of the Viennese had a lot to do in it.
The authors of the articles are Ann Maria Moix, Adolfo Sotelo, Nora Catelli, Marisa Siguán, Rosa Navarro, Raffaele Pinto, Marietta Gargatagli, Lluís Maria Todó, Marta Pesarrodona, Aránzazu Usandizaga, Rosa Regás and Mónica Monteys.
To know more on some of the authoresses: escritoras.com
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