Maria Luisa Bombal

Maria Luisa Bombal (1910-1980) was a Chilean writer, novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Upon publication of first novel, La ultima niebla (The final mist), she was acknowledged as one of the leading members of the avant-garde literary movement. She wrote numerous other novels, essays, and short stories. Her work shows conservative feminist ideology prevalent among upper-class Latin Americans in the 1930s and 1940s. Her later work explores female archetypes.

Wisdom & Quotes

• It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are most lasting.

- The Tree

Chien Chung-shu

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Maria Mitchell, Maria Montessori, Maria Taglioni, Maria Theresa, Mariage de Figaro