"El bachiller" (1895), segunda novela de Amado Nervo, narra la historia de un seminarista que, para evitar caer en la tentación de la lujuria, toma una decisión dramática: la emasculación. Al castrarse, el personaje no pretende alejarse de las mujeres, sino acercarse a ellas de manera espiritual, sin la distracción del deseo.
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In this short story, the main character takes a rather uncommon decision, to say the least. Castration. Why? How? That's what we get to understand little by little through the story.
While it was an interesting premise, I'm not a fan of the super religious context. It's a very important topic in this story, with lots of descriptions of religions things (christian, I'd say probably catholic but don't quote me on that). This also impacts the vocab, and if you aren't familiar with religious vocab