Aunt Tula

[La tía Tula]
Year: 
1921
Type: 
Public: 
Publisher: 
Dover Pubns
Year of publication: 
2005
Pages: 
171
Moral assessment: 
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality: 
Recommendable: 
Transmits values: 
Sexual content: 
Violent content: 
Vulgar or obscene language: 
Ideas that contradict Church teaching: 
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators

Perhaps the most popular of the author's novels. He says that this is the story of a young woman who, rejecting boyfriends, remains single to take care of her nephews, the children of a sister who is dying. She lives with her brother-in-law, whom she rejects for a husband, because she does not want her “children” to have a stepmother, but a mother. Having satisfied her maternal instinct, why lose her virginity? She is a virgin mother. 

Her abnegation and self-sacrifice stand out, but there remains the shadow of self-doubt, of not wanting to submit to anyone. Her desire to take care of the children is all-consuming.

Author: Jorge Gaspar, Portugal
Update on: Nov 2024