Breakthrough - Mercedes Valdivieso

[Luke]

Breakthrough, Mercedes Valdivieso, translated from Spanish by Graciela S. Daichman, 1961, Chile, NOVEL

"...Although married life does allow her some new freedoms, she finds herself living with a man who wants "to substitute control for his lack of real communication," a man who watches her "with growing fear. There was danger in a twenty-year-old wife who could drink with gusto, avoided mass, and had no plans for the future...Widely praised as one of Latin America's first revolutionary feminist novels, Breakthrough is a superb account of one woman's struggle for autonomy."

(J.L., p. 161)