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 Life and times of Matto de
Turner
 Scandal caused by
publication of Aves sin nido
- Given this list of strong social
criticism, particularly of the Ecclesiastical hierarchy,
hardly surprising that novel not well received in
Perú.
- Published in Spain, became a scandal in
Perú
- Copies of the book were publicly
burnt
- The author was excommunicated by the
archbishop in Lima
- Eventually she was exiled, and spent
the remainder of her life in Argentina
But who was MdeT and where does she
fit in literary history and history of ideas?
- At end of 1880s, Manuel González
Prada (most important Peruvian intellectual of the period)
had begun to criticize sharply the conservative alliance:
church, army, state, landowners, business
interests
- Part of a group of modernizing
positivist intellectuals who saw education of Indian as a
necessity, in order to incorporate Indian into
nation
- M de T (1854-1909) was very much
influenced by González Prada (joined his
Círculo Literario in 1886 as a young widow who had
been married to an Englishman) and introduced this new
tendency into the national novel with AsN
Please send any comments to
Geoffrey.Kantaris@caths.cam.ac.uk.
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