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      Memoirs of Leticia Valle

      by Rosa Chacel
      Published
      Dec 1993
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      Memorias de Leticia Valle (1945) is the fictionalized diary of an eleven-year-old girl who records an "inconceivable" seduction. Set in early twentieth-century Spain, the events she chronicles take place in the village of Simancas, site of a castle that houses a famous archive. Leticia, the archivist, and his wife—Leticia's piano teacher—are the actors in this drama, which is rehearsed in a purely introspective way. The seduction resembles that of a thirteen-year-old girl in Dostoyevsky's The Possessed, but it does not result in Leticia's mental or physical destruction. Rather, it acts as the catalyst for a deep questioning and exploration of life.

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      Dec 1993 University of Nebraska Press ISBN13 9780803263604 ISBN10 0803263600
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      Jan 1994 University of Nebraska Press ISBN13 9780803214569 ISBN10 0803214561
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