Name: Anuarí
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Author: Teresa Wilms Montt
ISBN: 9781645251569

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Physical Book

Author

Teresa Wilms Montt

Publisher

Snuggly Books

Language

English

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Paperback

ISBN13

9781645251569

Anuarí

Teresa Wilms Montt (Author) · Snuggly Books · Paperback

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Synopsis "Anuarí"

Beyond the melodramatic events of her brief life, the work of Chilean poet Teresa Wilms Montt (1893-1921) resists the passage of time with the strangeness of its images of eternity and the beauty of its oneiric song of contemplation, composed amidst the deepest horror.In Anuarí, Wilms Montt's collection of prose poems which was first published in 1918 and is presented here for the first time in English, in a brilliant translation by Jessica Sequeira, the author seeks to order her thoughts amidst the blur of nightmare, building, layer by layer, a world of dissonant beauty. Though the book has much in common with her other works, such as Sentimental Doubts and In the Stillness of Marble, in the present collection new figures, such as toads, swamps, decapitated heads, tea roses and the "Sly Lady", appear-along, of course, with the spirit of the unrequited lover Anuarí who killed himself in front of her.A prologue by Ramón del Valle-Inclán also adds insight into the work.

Teresa Wilms Montt

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Teresa Wilms Montt (Viña del Mar, 1893 – Paris, 1921) was a Chilean writer and poet, known for her rebellious spirit and her contribution to feminist anarchism. Born into an aristocratic family, she married at 17 to Gustavo Balmaceda Valdés, a union that led her to confront the strict social norms of the time. Her life was marked by transgression and the search for freedom, which led her to associate with prominent intellectuals of her time, such as Ramón Gómez de la Serna and Ramón María del Valle-Inclán.

Among her most notable works are "Inquietudes sentimentales" (1917), "Los tres cantos" (1917), "En la quietud del mármol" (1918), and "Anuarí" (1919), all in the genre of poetry and poetic prose. Her work reflects deep introspection and a critique of the social conventions of her time. Although she did not receive awards in her lifetime, her legacy has been revalued over time, inspiring contemporary works like "Y entonces Teresa" (2025) by writer Arturo Fontaine, which fictionalizes her life and highlights her relevance in Chilean literature.

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