"Research"

When does it cease to be truly necessary and just become an excuse that prevents writing?

Masiello, Francine, Ed. Juana Manuela Gorriti: Dreams and Realities. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

"From the time that she became directly involved in the transformative events of the nineteenth century, Gorriti expressed a clear disdain for political life. In Perfiles, a text published the year she died, Gorriti reflected on the tedium of politics: 'Destiny…determined…that an absorbing, bitter, destructive force would surround me – politics.'” (xxii-xxiii) Gorriti seemed to desire both an immersion into political life (she knew that the female voice was absolutely necessary in this arena, for example) and a retreat from it. Evidently, dreams and realities in conflict for this author, who's becoming more compelling with each new discovery about her life.

Juana Manuela Gorriti

Hija de padre rico venido a menos, exiliada, intelectual, casada con amantes, madre de 4 hijas, doyenne of the Peruvian and Argentine literary circles, difundadora de la escritura y la Cultura...