The Daisy Dolls

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The Daisy Dolls

work by Hernández

Also known as: “Las hortensias”

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In Felisberto Hernández
…the story “Las hortensias” (“The Daisy Dolls”). The humdrum, bourgeois protagonist carefully constructs pornographic scenes with dolls, revealing one of the most grotesque pictures of a subconscious in modern literature. The tone is such, however, that the reader is mesmerized rather than repulsed.
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