LA VISIÓ DE LA DONA EN "QUIM/QUIMA" (1971) DE MARIA AURÈLIA CAPMANY
THE VISION OF HE WOMAN IN "QUIM/QUIMA" (1971) BY MARIA AURÈLIA CAPMANY

Author(s): Agnès Toda i Bonet
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: feminism; Quim/Quima; Maria Aurèlia Capmany; Orlando; Virginia Woolf
Summary/Abstract: This work analyzes, in particular, the vision of the woman that Maria Aurèlia Capmany offers to us through "Quim/Quima" (1971), a work based on "Orlando" (1928) by Virginia Woolf. The otherness and/or sexual identification of the protagonist becomes a key to understanding what it means to be a man or a woman over time, especially in this latter case. It seeks to project a different situation into which women are more aware of themselves and the man empathizes with them. The last resort is leaving a better world, a world socially uprighter. Therefore, although the book is born for young people in order to make them aware of the world in which they are and the future they represent, behind it we can find a biting historical and identity work, as well as a great intertextuality; and this aspects that should not be underestimated, on the contrary. Capmany entrusts youngers with all her literary talent.

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