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    A Study Guide for Luisa Valenzuela's "The Censors"
    A Study Guide for Luisa Valenzuela's "The Censors"
    A Study Guide for Luisa Valenzuela's "The Censors"
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    A Study Guide for Luisa Valenzuela's "The Censors"

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    A Study Guide for Luisa Valenzuela's "The Censors," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535835695
    A Study Guide for Luisa Valenzuela's "The Censors"

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      A Study Guide for Luisa Valenzuela's "The Censors" - Gale

      10

      The Censors

      Luisa Valenzuela

      1988

      Introduction

      Luisa Valenzuela, an Argentine novelist and short story writer, published the short story The Censors in English in 1988, and later, in a bilingual Spanish/English short story collection, in 1992. A well-known and highly acclaimed author in her own country, Valenzuela began to gain critical attention in the United States in the 1980s. Her story The Censors focuses on the efforts of the main character, Juan, to infiltrate the government censorship office in order to intercept his own letter to his beloved Mariana so that the letter can be successfully sent without harm coming to either Mariana or himself. As Juan moves through the ranks of the censorship office, he becomes increasingly devoted to his work, and when he finally comes across his own letter, he censors it with enthusiasm, as he would any other letter. He is subsequently executed. Like many of Valenzuela's works, The Censors is reflective of the turbulent political atmosphere in Argentina during the 1970s and 1980s. The story features themes of government oppression on the political level and psychological transformation on the personal level. The duality of this structure is characteristic of Valenzuela's fiction, in which political and personal realities are explored in tandem.

      Valenzuela's The Censors first appeared in English in the 1988 short story collection Open Door Stories, published by North Point Press. A bilingual edition of the story was published in 1992, by Curbstone Press, in the collection The Censors.

      Author Biography

      Valenzuela was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 26, 1938. Her mother was a respected writer who guided Valenzuela's early interest in writing and literature. When Valenzuela was twenty years old, she traveled to France and married a French merchant marine sailor, Theodore Marjak. Settling in Normandy, France, the couple had a daughter, Anna Lisa, but divorced six years later. In the early 1960s, Valenzuela moved to Paris, where she wrote for Radio Television Française and gathered material for her first novel, Hay que sonreír (1966; later translated

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