Carta a mi mujer: a lyric will between reality and desire
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2015.774n4005Keywords:
letter, wife, nature, poetry, metaphor, loveAbstract
Even Francisco Umbral’s worst enemies acknowledge his talent for innovative linguistic discourse when writing texts of various kinds - autobiography, autofiction, prose fiction or journalism. Among the 14 texts Francisco Umbral published between 2000 and 2010, only two can be considered prose fiction stricto sensu – his novels El socialista sentimental (2000) and Los metales nocturnos (2003), while the rest of his production at the time included his columns in newspapers, his private diary, Un ser de lejanías (2001) and his Carta a mi mujer, which Umbral apparently wrote in the 1980s but was published in 2008 after his death. In these supposedly narrative texts, it is possible to pinpoint a tendency towards lyricism. From this point of view, this article will focus on the aforementioned posthumous work as an example of lyrical discourse. Addressed to his wife María España, in this letter Umbral achieves a high degree of creativity and manages to produce what might be easily taken as a testament where he offers a unique depiction of his relationship with his wife.
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