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Iphigenia: (The Diary of a Young Lady Who Wrote Because She Was Bored)
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Iphigenia: (The Diary of a Young Lady Who Wrote Because She Was Bored) Paperback - 1994 - 1st Edition

by Teresa De La Parra; Bertie Acker (Translator)


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Winner, Harvey L. Johnson Award, Southwest Council on Latin American Studies, 1994

"...I didn't want to tell you the truth for anything in the world, because it seemed very humiliating to me..." The truth is that Iphigenia is bored and, more than bored, buried alive in her grandmother's house in Caracas, Venezuela. After the excitement of being a beautiful, unchaperoned young woman in Paris, her father's death has sent her back to a forgotten homeland, where rigid decorum governs. Two men--the married man she adores and the wealthy fianc she abhors--offer her escape from her prison. Which of these impossible suitors will she choose?

Iphigenia was first published in 1924 in Venezuela, where it hit patriarchal society like a bomb. Teresa de la Parra was accused of undermining the morals of young women with this tale of a passionate woman who lacks the money to establish herself in the liberated, bohemian society she craves. Yet readers have kept the novel alive for decades, and this first English translation now introduces its heroine to a wider audience.

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  • Title Iphigenia: (The Diary of a Young Lady Who Wrote Because She Was Bored)
  • Author Teresa De La Parra; Bertie Acker (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 372
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Texas Press, Austin, TX
  • Date 1994-03-01
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780292715714 / 0292715714
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.02 x 0.98 in (22.91 x 15.29 x 2.49 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Diary fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93017895
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 02/07/1994, Page 84

About the author

Teresa de la Parra was also the author of Las memorias de Mam Blanca (Mama Blanca's Souvenirs). Translator Bertie Acker is a professor emerita of Spanish at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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