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Gabriela Mistral: “…. temblor de alma en temblor de carne”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Margaret T. Rudd
Margaret T. Rudd*
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McLean, Virginia
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The life of Gabriela Mistral, born Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga, was a miraculous journey filled with “a trembling of the soul in a trembling of the flesh.” It took her from a hidden valley in the Chilean Andes, where she was born in 1889, to a regal hall in Stockholm, where she received the Nobel Prize for literature from the hands of King Gustavus V in 1945.

Gabriela related the beginning and the ending of her journey in a few Unes of poetry:

      Todas íbamos a ser reinas,
      de cuatro reinos sobre el mar:
      Rosalía con Efigenia
      y Lucila con Soledad.

      En el Valle de Elqui, ceñido
      de cien montañas o de más,

      Y Lucila, que hablaba a río,
      a montaña y cañaveral,
      en las lunas de la locura
      recibió reino de verdad.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Inter-American Studies , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , January 1967 , pp. 95 - 112
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1967

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3 Credit for this discovery goes to Mrs. Magda Arce, visiting professor from Chile at the University of California, who, at the request of the author, currently working on a biography of Gabriela Mistral, visited the house on Anapamu street in Santa Barbara.

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10 Ibid, p. (124) 247. Gabriela frequently used her own abbreviations, such as Hum. for humanidad; H. for hombres; C. for Cristo; esp. for espiritual; imp. for importante; sup. for superiores; J. C. for Jesucristo.

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