by Marcela Serrano · Aguilar chilena. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789561503250
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«Antigua vida mía» is the contemporary fiction novel by Marcela Serrano, published by Aguilar Chilena in paperback (366 pages, in Spanish).
The novel focuses on Violeta Dasinski, a public figure who becomes news because of a tragedy, and her friend Josefa Ferrer, who reconstructs the story of both women from Violeta's diaries. Through this narrative, friendship, memory, and the search for female identity are addressed in a complex social context.
Originally published in 1995, it falls under Literature and Fiction, within contemporary fiction.
For readers of contemporary fiction in Spanish, especially those who want to approach Chilean narrative.
Marcela Serrano is a Chilean novelist. In 1994, her first novel, Para que no me olvides, won the Literary Prize in Santiago, and her second book, Nosotras que nos queremos tanto, won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish. She received the runner-up award in the renowned Premio Planeta competition in 2001 for her novel Lo que está en mi corazón. Carlos Fuentes has quoted her description of the modern woman as "having the capacity to change skin like a snake, freeing herself from the inevitability and servitude of more obsolete times."
