Abstract
Although Hay que sonreír was published in 1966, it was actually written some years previously. As Valenzuela explains in an interview with Albalú Angel (1984: 3): ‘Me casé a los veinte años y me fui a vivir a Francia, y tuve una hija muy pronto. Y entonces las horas de la siesta de mi hija – tenía meses – yo escribía’ [I married at the age of twenty and went to live in France, and I had a daughter very early. And while she had her nap – she was only months old – I would write]. The novel was therefore written between 1959 and 1960. It was subsequently ‘polished up’ before publication.
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