Girl Power

When I was teenager, my whole world was marked by literature. But definitely, the writter I mostly remember and of course, I admire, is María Luisa Bombal. She wasn't just a prolific writer, also she was an amazing woman (I totally consider her an example of life).

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She was born in Viña del Mar, in 1910. She lived in Paris and Buenos Aires,  she studied Literature and knew the cultural and artistic avant-garde of the epoque. Her friends were people like Federico García Lorca, Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda, just to name a few.

One fact the people always remember about her, is that she was a very passionate woman. When she fell in love, she could do anything for her man. In 1941, she waited for Eulogio Sánchez Errázuriz (an old lover) at Crillón Hotel, and she shot him three times in his arm.

Well, I think I justified her act, because I'am very impulsive too. I think when someone feels something, it has to be showed, even if this ends hurting somebody else. And that's what María Luisa did in her life and her work. She never was afraid of anything.

About her books, well, I didn't read them all. But my favorite book is La última Niebla. The book tells the story of a woman who hates her life and start to feel and think a whole different world. She ends falling in love with a stranger and confusing her real life with fantasy. María Luisa can describe what the protagonist feel with great precision and you totally can feel identified with her. You should read her work, it will blow your mind!