Carolina Coronado en “Un libro sin letras”, entre el desprecio y la autoafirmación

Abstract

Carolina Coronado is one of the indisputable authors in the romantic canon. Thorughout her literary production, she fights to legitimize her artistic production and shows us the problematic relationship between writer and reader, a relationship loaded with prejudices that deny the public self of women writers. If in a series of articles she shows a total literary vocation and claimed her pioneering position, it will be in 1904 when, with a tone between disappointment and invective, she ironices on the power of the publishing market and its strategies to take advantage of the benefits of the female pen. This is how in “A book with no letters” by a fictional game in which the pseudonym used by thr author becomes a character and appropriates the name of the author, she seems seems to put closure to some claims that all along the century have served to open a gap for women writers, but the stigma of minor literature continues to weight on their shoulders. A conflicting text which also tells us of the changes in the literary field in the last third of the 19th century, when writing becomes more a job than a vocation, something inconceivable for those who always dreamt of their fully deserved place in the male club of notables.