Mercedes Pinto Armas (

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, 12 October 1883 –

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, 21 October 1976) was a Spanish writer. Her 1926 novel ''He'' is the basis of the

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film ''Él'' (''This Strange Passion'', 1952).Miriam Haddu, Joanna Page Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from ...0230622151 2009 - Page 179 "Luis Buñuel's Él (This Strange Passion, 1952) is based on an autobiographical, hybrid novel, entitled Pensamientos(1926), by Mercedes Pinto. In this novel, the female protagonist denounces the persecution that she suffered at the hands of her paranoid husband in the Spanish bourgeois society of the 1920s. Pinto adds essays written by doctors, psychiatrists, and lawyers in the form of prologues and appendices to the fictional novel, thereby combining historical contextualization with individual subjectivity ..."

Works

*Plays : “''Un señor cualquiera''” (1930), “''Silencio''” (1929), “''Una mujer, Ana Rosa''” (1932). *Poems : “''Brisas del Teide''” (1921), “''Cantos de muchos puertos''” (1940), “''Más alto que el águila''” (1968). *Essay : “''La emoción de Montevideo''” (1949). *Novels : “''Él''” (1926), “''Ella''” (1934), “''El alma grande del pequeño Juan''” (1950). *Film : "''El coleccionista de cadáveres''" (1966), "''Días de viejo color''" (1967).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pinto, Mercedes 1883 births 1976 deaths People from San Cristóbal de La Laguna Spanish women writers Spanish emigrants to Mexico Mexican people of Canarian descent Writers from the Canary Islands