SOURCE: Pearsall, Priscilla. “Julián del Casal's Portraits of Women.” In The Analysis of Literary Texts: Current Trends in Methodology, edited by Randolph D. Pope, pp. 78-88. Ypsilanti, Mich.: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1980.

In the following essay, Pearsall analyses Casal's representations of women in his prose and poetry, remarking that his powerful images of women represented one of the major culminations of his poetic vision.

Julián del Casal's portraits of women in prose and poetry were central to the development of his aesthetic world. There is a need to examine the way in which Casal's deeply ambiguous and fragmented attitude toward women evolved through his poetry and how it continued to develop in his prose.¹ It was in large part through the portraits of women that Casal developed the powerful, independent imagery that represents one of the culminations of his poetic vision.

Casal portrayed creative women...