
The notion of “viscerality as activism” aptly describes Chilean author Teresa Wilms Montt’s atypical life. She was born into an aristocratic family in 1893, but was a rebel from a young age: she married at 17 against her parents’ will. When her husband later accused her of adultery, she was confined in a convent where she did much of her personal diary writing (similar to Virginia Woolf or Alejandra Pizarnik). Having been separated from her daughters, she escaped to Buenos Aires with the poet Vicente Huidobro. She travelled to New York, later to Europe, where during her stay in Spain would meet, among many others, Ramón del Valle-Inclán.
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