Las Honradas

by De Carrion, Miguel

• ISBN13: 9789597209973
• ISBN10: 9597209977
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-01-01
• Publisher: Ediciones Cubanas

Summary

This Cuban novel explores the theme of sexuality, unfolding with abundant luxuries and intimacies. Endowed with a strong psychological realism, Miguel de Carrion narrates the insatiable process of seduction that grows more pleasurable and intense the closer it comes towards the conquest of love, contempt, and dissidence. 

Se trata de una novela en cuyo ambiente de cubanidad inmediata se situaba un tema de la sexual cotidiano, desenvuelto con lujo de intimidades y con amena abundancia. Dotado de fuerte realismo psicológico, narra el implacable proceso de una seducción que es tanto más placentera cuanto más se acerca a la conquista amorosa, al desacato y la disidencia.

Author Biography

Miguel de Carrion earned his medical degree from University of Havana, and dedicated himself to the profession throughout his life. He immigrated to the United States at the outbreak of the War of Independence in 1895, and when he returned to Cuba, he devoted himself almost entirely to letters and journalism. In his work, he portrayed the underworld of Havana in an effort to capture the authentic social and political reality. He was a founding member of the National Academy of Arts and Letters and a contributing author to the El Heraldo de Cuba.