La narrativa de Carmen de Burgos, Colombine. El universo humano y los lenguajes

Abstract

Carmen de Burgos (Almería, 1867-Madrid, 1932) with her literary and erudite work was part of the main currents of the Spanish literature throughout the first third of the XXth. Century. The dimension and variety of the work seem endless: more than a hundred short and long novels, literary studies, travel books, biographies, translations, social studies. She was the first female newspaper editor. She published thousands of articles in the main Spanish and foreign publications. The yearning of modernity and social justice always guided her.
As far as her literary trajectory is concerned, Carmen de Burgos always held two complementary paths that she followed throughout different tendencies and influences and ordered her wide production: her commitment to society and a constant desire of plenitude that pushed her to explore the world looking for an unreachable paradise. Travelling therefore occupied most part of her life and work. Vitalism and rationalism define her life and her literature.