Geographies of the soul: Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and Norah Lange

Abstract

Although they were born in different countries Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and Norah Lange lived the experience of great productions in the avant-garde stage. Both are not unrelated to the aesthetic changes that this movement brought. In their autobiographies, they account for some avant-garde features, at the same time that they reveal how the new artistic techniques had an impact on literary writing. The destinies of these two writers were very different. Norah had a brilliant existence from a social point of view and was able to realize her intelectual aspirations. Zelda enjoyed the wild and lavish life of the Parisian bohemian for a time, but his fate was tragic. Two women, two autobiographical plots that reveal and hide their own existence in the midst of the andates and norms of a patriarchal society that held women in an environment limited to family life and that prohibited them from the intellectual world.