Philperiodicals

El único gesto

Literary works by Filipino authors were often published in newspapers: poetry, short stories and even novels were periodically printed on the pages of magazines. This was also the case of some of Evangelina Guerrero Zacarías’ work. They can be found on the pages of Excelsior, a magazine which she edited, but also in La Vanguardia  and La Opinión. The daughter of Fernando María Guerrero was a well-known and acclaimed writer during this period; she even won the Zobel prize in 1935 for her poetry collection Kaleidoscopio espiritual.  “El único gesto” is a short story about a man named Aurelio who meets two different women. First, he meets Luisa, a flirty, bold, “super-modern” woman, whom he feels attracted to, but at the same time, repulsed by. Then he meets Carolina, a girl he describes as being sentimental, sensible and sensitive, and falls in love with her. Despite having already planned the wedding, Aurelio cannot stop thinking about the fact that he is too old for Carolina and decides to make a self-sacrifice: canceling the wedding and going away with Luisa. The story is a contrast between two types of women: the triumphant, flirty, modern woman and the heartbroken, innocent, sentimental girl.

Fuente

Guerrero Zacarías, Evangelina. 1930. “El único gesto.” Excelsior, year XXVII, num. 884, December 10, 1930. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.

Relación

Villaescusa, Irene. 2022. “Mujer modelo y modelos de mujer: El Discurso femenino y feminista en la modernidad hispanofilipina”, in El Desafío de La Modernidad En La Literatura Hispanofilipina (1885–1935) (edited by Rocío Ortuño Casanova and Axel Gasquet). Amsterdam: Brill: 235-55. 

Idioma

Spanish

Fecha

1930-12-12

Editor

Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository

Autoría

Evangelina Guerrero Zacarías

Colaborador

Georgiana Sara Negrutiu

Materia

Excelsior

Short stories

Women writers