Noël Valis is Professor of Spanish at Yale University, and her many books include the award-winning translation of Noni Benegas's poetry, Burning Cartography. Carol Maier is Professor Emerita of Spanish and Translation Studies at Kent State University and the translator of several books, including the award-winning translation of Rosa Chacel's Memoirs of Leticia Valle and María Zambrano's Delirium and Destiny: A Spaniard in Her Twenties, also published by SUNY Press.

"These are surprising and thought-provoking confessions by two remarkable Spanish thinkers and authors … Noël Valis and Carol Maier provide the first complete English-language translation of these essays with excellent supplementary material. Their translations preserve the beauty and rhythm of the original Spanish texts … [the confessions] open doors to key human and historical realities and to original philosophical and literary analysis." — Society"Both translators are to be applauded for taking on the difficult challenge of giving a new voice to these often forgotten women writers who deserve to be heard and who are virtually unknown in the English-speaking world. Their translations are extremely valuable for facilitating wider access to the work of two original and important female thinkers." — Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature

• IntroductionNoël ValisConfessionMaría ZambranoConfessionRosa Chacel Afterword: Pieces of a Scattered PuzzleCarol MaierAnnotationsIndex

Noël Valis is Professor of Spanish at Yale University, and her many books include the award-winning translation of Noni Benegas's poetry, Burning Cartography. Carol Maier is Professor Emerita of Spanish and Translation Studies at Kent State University and the translator of several books, including the award-winning translation of Rosa Chacel's Memoirs of Leticia Valle and María Zambrano's Delirium and Destiny: A Spaniard in Her Twenties, also published by SUNY Press.

"These are surprising and thought-provoking confessions by two remarkable Spanish thinkers and authors … Noël Valis and Carol Maier provide the first complete English-language translation of these essays with excellent supplementary material. Their translations preserve the beauty and rhythm of the original Spanish texts … [the confessions] open doors to key human and historical realities and to original philosophical and literary analysis." — Society"Both translators are to be applauded for taking on the difficult challenge of giving a new voice to these often forgotten women writers who deserve to be heard and who are virtually unknown in the English-speaking world. Their translations are extremely valuable for facilitating wider access to the work of two original and important female thinkers." — Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature

• IntroductionNoël ValisConfessionMaría ZambranoConfessionRosa Chacel Afterword: Pieces of a Scattered PuzzleCarol MaierAnnotationsIndex