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Soliloquies (Exclamations of the Soul to God)

Teresa of Ávila

Lyrical prose prayers addressed to God in the second person, condensing the tension between longing for death and acceptance of life that runs through her poetry ('I die because I do not die'). They are the Teresian text closest to pure prayer and the one that best shows her oral rhythm.

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Spanish

· 17 chapters · 1 h reading

  1. 1Capítulo I1′
  2. 2Capítulo II2′
  3. 3Capítulo III2′
  4. 4Capítulo IV1′
  5. 5Capítulo V2′
  6. 6Capítulo VI1′
  7. 7Capítulo VII2′
  8. 8Capítulo VIII1′
  9. 9Capítulo IX1′
  10. 10Capítulo X2′
  11. 11Capítulo XI1′
  12. 12Capítulo XII3′
  13. 13Capítulo XIII2′
  14. 14Capítulo XIV2′
  15. 15Capítulo XV2′
  16. 16Capítulo XVI2′
  17. 17Capítulo XVII4′
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