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The Divine Recuse, Sor Juana de Maldonado Y Paz
Ana Isabel: a respectable girl
Journey to the Center of the Mind
This is the first English translation of Guatemalan author Máximo Soto Hall’s (1871-1944), La Divina Reclusa (Ediciones Ercilla, Chile, 1938). The novel is preceded by a critical essay that provides historical context and why we know about this enigmatic woman. This novel is based on the life of Sor Juana de Maldonado y Paz (1598-1668), a Conceptionist nun who lived in Antigua and whose life inspired other Latin American authors to write about her. There is no English translation of this novel and very little is written about Guatemala during this period.
Máximo Soto Hall, (1871-19440, born in Guatemala City, is one of the most important Guatemalan writers of the twentieth century. In his historical novel La Divina reclusa this anti-imperialist journalist describes the impact of vice regal Spanish rule in the Kingdom of Guatemala and the Catholic Church’s power in this part of the Spanish Empire. Sor Juana de Maldonado y Paz is “the other” Sor Juana.” This historical novel describes the corruption and in-fighting in the various religious orders of the Church through its colorful setting in Antigua, the former capital of the Kingdom of Guatemala, home to many churches, convents and monasteries. Juana de Maldonado y Paz, a young, beautiful and gifted woman and the daughter of a prominent judge, professed as Sor Juana de la Concepción in 1619.
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