The Shrouded Woman

Name: The Shrouded Woman
Author: Maria Luisa Bombal

by Maria Luisa Bombal

Dead woman reflects on her marriage and life from beyond the grave

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Maria Luisa Bombal

Chilean novelist whose lyrical, dreamlike fiction pioneered Latin American literary modernism. The House of Mist and The Shrouded Woman are hallucinatory explorations of female desire and social constraint.

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