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05-03-2018 | Book Review

María Zambrano and Rosa Chacel, Two Confessions. Trans. by Noël Valis and Carol Maier

Albany: State University of New York, 2015. 240 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978–1438457307

Author: Laura Ymayo Tartakoff

Published in: Society | Issue 2/2018

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These are surprising and thought-provoking confessions by two remarkable Spanish thinkers and authors – María Zambrano (1904–1991) and Rosa Chacel (1898–1994). Noël Valis and Carol Maier provide the first complete English-language translation of these essays with excellent supplementary material. Their translations preserve the beauty and rhythm of the original Spanish texts. Though “confession” as a concept is central to the book, neither Zambrano’s nor Chacel’s essay is a personal confession. Zambrano’s reads ultimately as a spiriritual or poetic meditation, and Chacel, herself a novelist and poet, presents what can be considered mostly an intricate literary study, although in its final segment she refers to it as a meditation. …

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Title
María Zambrano and Rosa Chacel, Two Confessions. Trans. by Noël Valis and Carol Maier
Albany: State University of New York, 2015. 240 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978–1438457307
Author
Laura Ymayo Tartakoff
Publication date
05-03-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Society / Issue 2/2018
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-018-0234-1

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