Clara Isabel de Sade

The identity of "Clara Isabel de Sade," the pseudonymous author of the sicaliptic Las simulaciones de Charito (La Novela de Noche, no. 61, 1926), is unknown. Whether "Clara" was a woman is likewise impossible to confirm. This terrain is made even less stable to stand on given the examples of "Laura Brunet" (Joan Sanxo Farrerons) and "Eva León" (Pedro Morante), male writers of sicaliptic fiction who assumed a female pseudonym. Yet the fact that 'her' name is one of few female names to appear as contributors to La Novela de Noche is suggestive, as Carmen M. Pujante Segura (in Kiosk Literature of Silver Age Spain: Modernity and Mass Culture, eds. Zamostny and Larson, Intellect, 2017) explores. There is evidence that 'Clara' also submitted a manuscript to a contest sponsored by La Novela de Hoy (Pujante Segura 2017: 58-9), but there does not exist anymore information about 'her' life.