María Luisa Bombal

María Luisa Bombal was born on 8 June 1910 in Viña del Mar. After her father's death, she left with her mother and sisters for Paris, where she studied literature at the Sorbonne. Back in Chile in 1931, she went to Buenos Aires at Neruda's invitation, he being consul at the time, and frequented the circle of the journal Sur. In January 1941, at the Hotel Crillón in Santiago, she shot Eulogio Sánchez, her former lover, and the judge acquitted her. Married to Raphaël de Saint-Phalle, she lived for many years in the United States, then returned to South America and died in Santiago on 6 May 1980.

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• NovelThe Final MistLa última nieblaMaría Luisa Bombal · 1934Literature