The Physics and Fiction of Grief and Time: Cristina Fernández Cubas's "La nueva vida".
Cristina Fernández Cubas's short story "La nueva vida" (La habitación de Nona 2015) foregrounds the play between truth and fiction, past and present, and death and identity, where the widowed protagonist finds meaning not in philosophy, but in physics. Widowed in 2007 at age 62, Fernández Cubas foca...
| Publicado en: | Hispania Vol. 105; no. 3; pp. 375 - 388 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Sep2022
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