Рецепцията на Росарио Кастеянос – пропуск на българската литературна сцена
The Reception of Rosario Castellanos – an Omission on the Bulgarian Literary Scene

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a brief biography as well as several summaries of landmark short stories by the Mexican author Rosario Castellanos(1925–1974). At the very end is presented the short story “Modesta Gomez”, translated into Bulgarian by the author of the material, Albena Makarova. Although Castellanos is a significant figure on the Latin American literary scene, she is not known in Bulgaria. Castellanos was a lecturer at one of the most prominent Mexican universities, and at the end of her life she was an ambassador to Israel. She has written poetry, novels, essays, short stories and has two works of drama. She was influenced by Tolstoy, Proust, Virginia Woolf, as well as by the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir. The themes that can be singled out in her work have a personal significance to her and resonate with the current cultural and social trends in her homeland at the time: the struggle against the disempowerment of two significant social groups: women and Native American indians.

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