Maria Luisa Bombal was very much credited for altering and formulating the substance of Chilean letters that was prior to the year 1935 that was subjected on more realistic, masculine and regional. However, she had written several short stories and her two novellas, her extraordinary works have won consistent praise for their narrative experimentation, mixed poetic imagery, and creative characters. Bombal was born in a privileged family Vina del Mar, Chile. At the age of twelve she moved to Paris where she attended Notre Dame de L’Assomption and La Bruyere before she graduated from La Sorbonne receiving a degree in French Literature.
Despite early acknowledgment of Bombal's significance in Latin American literature, many scholars have focused on her craftsmanship or have or found it interesting to study in depth the many images in her fiction. The majority, however, have been drawn to her depiction of the feminine experience. At the sametime she herself offers little or no positive rebellion against her diminished humanity, and, instead, longs for the romantic role once assigned to her. María Luisa Bombal has been hailed as one of the most important Latin American writers of the twentieth century. Part of the reason for this high praise is that she explored the fantasy and reality called Magical Realism before its more famous practitioners, …show more content…
In La última niebla, for example, was about a woman trapped in a loveless marriage which takes a lover one evening while lost in a deep mist. Because the story contains a first-person narrative and takes place in the immediate present, the lines between concrete reality and fantasy are blurred. As the story had continued, both the protagonist and the reader begin to doubt that the lover exists, revealing the complex and dismal state of the protagonist's
Despite early acknowledgment of Bombal's significance in Latin American literature, many scholars have focused on her craftsmanship or have or found it interesting to study in depth the many images in her fiction. The majority, however, have been drawn to her depiction of the feminine experience. At the sametime she herself offers little or no positive rebellion against her diminished humanity, and, instead, longs for the romantic role once assigned to her. María Luisa Bombal has been hailed as one of the most important Latin American writers of the twentieth century. Part of the reason for this high praise is that she explored the fantasy and reality called Magical Realism before its more famous practitioners, …show more content…
In La última niebla, for example, was about a woman trapped in a loveless marriage which takes a lover one evening while lost in a deep mist. Because the story contains a first-person narrative and takes place in the immediate present, the lines between concrete reality and fantasy are blurred. As the story had continued, both the protagonist and the reader begin to doubt that the lover exists, revealing the complex and dismal state of the protagonist's