Bazán, Emilia Pardo | Francie Cate-Arries (essay date 1992)
Francie Cate-Arries (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Murderous Impulses and Moral Ambiguity: Emilia Pardo Bazán's Crime Stories," in Romance Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 2, May, 1992, pp. 205-10.
[In the following essay, Cate-Arries examines Pardo Bazán's frequent use of crime in her short fiction.]
In an article published in La Ilustración Artística in 1909, Emilia Pardo Bazán writes somewhat wistfully of her secret desire to join the ranks of professional crime solvers: "Todos llevamos dentro algo de instinto policíaco; cuando leo en la prensa el relato de un crimen, experimento deseos de verlo todo, los sitios, los muebles, suponiendo que, de poder hacerlo así, averiguaría mucho y encontraría la pista del criminal verdadero." It is well known that the Condesa confined her restless powers of detection to her armchair; indeed, criminals and their victims fill a wide range of her short stories and novelettes. In this essay I propose...
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