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In the American writer Barbara Mujica, author of a hundred books (novels, short stories, essays, literary analysis, and university texts, etc.), all the necessary elements for success come together. Faced with the demands of today's publishing vocation and competition, in addition to talent and inspiration, a good education combined with a touch of magic is ideal for any writer who intends to achieve his or her publishing goals. Mujica brings together all of the above keys, and then some.
Fate provided Mujica with a special background. From her early days as a student at the University of California at Los Angeles, where she was debating between studying law or becoming a writer by profession, she had the good fortune and privilege of having extraordinary and inspiring teachers, such as Luis Cernuda, Joseph Silverman, Jean Decock, professor of French and expert in post-war existentialism, or Samuel Armistead. Although she initially specialized in French literature, the latter was the one who most influenced her academic future during this first stage, even anticipating and predicting that she would become a professor of Spanish and that she would do her doctorate in this field. The intellectual influence of these professors, anointed in turn by Jean Paul Sartre, was her great school. From her second academic stage at the Sorbonne, during her graduate studies in French, she also remembers Professor André Martinet. Thanks to this experience, he was able to compare and understand the differences between American and European universities at an early age. Upon returning to the United States and entering NYU for his doctorate, he...