Cuentos completos

There are many difficulties -some personal, and many literary- that Kate Chopin (1850-1904) had to overcome so that today, from the 21st century, we can read and value her work as it has always deserved. The author of a hundred short stories and two novels, Chopin was the victim of silence and exclusion from the literary canon due to the prudery and censorship of her time. The absolute modernity and freedom of her stories, which connect directly with contemporary themes such as motherhood or sexuality, or their unusual narrative elegance were some of the causes. And it would take many decades for critics to be aware of the need to study and disseminate the work of an extraordinary writer for the originality and courage of her literature. Gathered for the first time in Spanish -and translated by Emma Cotro, Maite Fernández Estañán, Eva Gallud and Juan Carlos García- these complete Tales include not only the two collections published in life -Las people from bayou and Una noche en Acadie-, but also those stories that he left projected for a third book - A vocation and a voice - and the rest of those that remained scattered and forgotten. It is time to get them back. Get Kate Chopin back.