Memorias de Leticia Valle (1945) is the fictionalized diary of an eleven-year-old girl who records an "inconceivable" seduction. Set in early twentieth-century Spain, the events she chronicles take place in the village of Simancas, site of a castle that houses a famous archive. Leticia, the archivist, and his wife--Leticia's piano teacher--are the actors in this drama, which is rehearsed in a purely introspective way. The seduction resembles that of a thirteen-year-old girl in Dostoyevsky's The Possessed, but it does not result in Leticia's mental or physical destruction. Rather, it acts as the catalyst for a deep questioning and exploration of life.
- ISBN10 0803214561
- ISBN13 9780803214569
- Publish Date 1 January 1994 (first published 30 December 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 July 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Nebraska Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 201
- Language English