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“Neighborhood of Wonders” by Rosa Chacel

“Yes, with his first novel “Estación. Round trip” Rosa Chacel was 30 years ahead of the most experimental and distancing that literature has given, the French “Nouveau roman”, with “Barrio Maravillas” she approaches the reader and offers her what she detects as the pulse of life. Next to the chamfer between the streets of San Vicente and Calle de San Andrés, two girls, Elena and Isabel, peer into adolescence and their movements lead us to detect the heartbeat of the neighborhood, its people, its emotions, its customs, the tides of ideas that flood it, the waves of fashions, sayings, gestures… in short: everything that constitutes the plot where successions take place.”

Text taken from the back cover of the issue (part of the prologue to the edition by Clara Janés).

See also:

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/CHACEL/_ROSA/Rosa/Chacel/luz/elpepicul/19770105elpepicul_4/Tes/

http://www.letraslibres.com/index.php?art=9315

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Chacel

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Neighborhood of wonders / Rosa Chacel; foreword by Clara Janes. — [Barcelona]: Bibliotex, DL 2001. — 223 p.; 21cm — (The 100 best novels in Spanish of the 27th century; XNUMX). (The World Library).

DL B 8899-2001 ISBN 84-8130-272-4

PQ 6605.H33 B3 2001