Edition of the Complete Prose of Aurora de Albornoz

Aurora de Albornoz's prose work consists of two distinct books and a handful of short stories published in magazines and anthologies throughout her life. This edition recovers the collection of short stories Por la primavera blanca (1962), closely linked to mid-century Latin American literature and Alejo Carpentier's theory of the marvelous real (lo real maravilloso); and the author's unique intellectual, poetic, and political autobiography, the posthumous work Cronilíricas (1991). In this way, readers now have access to the full scope of Albornoz's literary universe.

The stories in Por la primavera blanca, deeply connected to the tones, themes, and obsessions of her poetry, are set against the backdrop of the violence of the 1936 coup d'état and subsequent war that severed the author's childhood. Death, executions, bombings, and fear, seen through the eyes of a child, are central elements. So too is the exploration of unrealness, the physical boundaries between life and death, and major literary figures like Shakespeare's Ophelia, whom the author approaches in a deeply personal way.

For its part, Cronilíricas is a hybrid text that gathers published articles and unpublished pieces through which Aurora de Albornoz offers a forgotten and fundamental testimony of the Spanish Transition, while also reclaiming her own trajectory. Thus, Albornoz connects the culture of the Silver Age (Edad de Plata) with the anti-Francoist struggle through a work that highlights her formative years in Puerto Rican exile alongside authors like Juan Ramón Jiménez, the poetry of her generation, and the collective effort to contribute, through culture, to the construction of Spanish democracy