Pasión y muerte del cura Deusto

by Augusto D'Halmar

In 1924, the Chilean novelist Augusto D'Halmar published a daring novel that tells of the love between a Basque priest and a young Andalusian in Seville in the time before the First World War. A classic of Latin American queer literature, this critical edition presents for the first time a corrected text (based on the collation of several editions) with an abundant critical section, which accounts for the cultural complexity of the novel: the use of ecclesiastical Latin, Orientalism, references to Spanish music of the time, to the history and architecture of Seville, and to the use of a language forged from Castilian Spanish with much attention to the Spanish-Arabic vocabulary and regional Spanish dialects. At the same time, implicit references to the life and works of D'Halmar and some of his Chilean contemporaries are noted. This volume inaugurates the new S Series of the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature, by Daniel Balderston.