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Pepita Jimenez
MEXICO · 1946

Pepita Jimenez

Emilio “Indio” Fernández
religious vocation coming of age forbidden romance family dynamics Andalusian society
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Synopsis

On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractiv

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