Blanca Olmedo (1908: the first honduran novel): first honduran novel): The first honduran novel)

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Lucila Gamero broke Honduran conventions by publishing Blanca Olmedo, the first novel written in this Central American country. Although Modernism continued its revolution of beauty and creative freedom, this work bears the unmistakable stamp of Romanticism. "The study of real life and the deeply painful examples of injustice that I witnessed-sometimes suffered by my family and myself-were what led me to write this book," explained Lucila Gamero de...