The Sleeping World of Yenia

Maria Carolina Geel

Chile. Chilean writer whose work was not without controversy due to her irreverence towards the canons of the time. She became especially known after starring in the crime at the Crillon Hotel involving her lover, Roberto Pumarino, whose motives were never explained by the author. Her first novel, published in 1946, *El mundo dormido de Yenia* (Yenia's Sleeping World), was received as a work about the female interior. She later published *Extraño estío* (Strange Summer) (1947); *Soñaba y amaba el adolescente Perces* (The Adolescent Perces Dreamed and Loved) (1949); *El pequeño arquitecto* (The Little Architect) (1956); and *Huida* (Escape) (1961). She also dedicated herself to literary criticism, and in 1949, she published *Siete escritoras chilenas* (Seven Chilean Writers), highlighting contemporary female writers who were not included in the canon. During her time in prison, she wrote *Cárcel de mujeres* (Women's Prison), which made a great impression in its time by describing an unknown and invisible world through prose that blurred the lines between testimonial and fiction.

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