Dorotea suffers a syncope, a temporary loss of consciousness that is accompanied by paralysis of the heart and breathing, but she rises from her grave and goes home.
In this story, written in 1908 by Emilia Pardo Bazán and published in 1912 in the volume
Tragic Tales
, they invite us to reflect on what it is to be dead and what it is to be alive.
Other scholars of Pardo Bazán's work interpret it as a parody of the role that women play in the Gothic stories of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, in which wives returned from beyond to love their husbands again.
In this week's episode, Julio Vaqueiro, Iris Castro and Jerónimo Boza are going to try to have a terrifying Halloween and Day of the Dead.