References in Literature and Music
Joaquín Sabina's song "Por el Boulevar de los Sueños Rotos" ("Down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams") is dedicated to Vargas.. Sergio Ramírez Mercado, a Nicaraguan writer, published in 2011 the novel "La Fugitiva," a fictionalized account of the life of Costa Rican writer Yolanda Oreamuno. In Ramírez' work, Oreamuno's life is told by three women who pressumably met her. According to many critics, one of the female characters telling Oreamuno's history is a singer that resembles Chavela Vargas. The character talks about her own life, and its non reciprocated lesbian love for Yolanda Oreamuno.
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