LibGuides: Gonzalo Torrente Ballester in Albany, NY (1966-1972): Home

Brief Description of the Collection

The Gonzalo Torrente Ballester Collection at the University at Albany Libraries (SUNY) is the most comprehensive in the U.S. It includes both works by and about the author. Of special importance are his diaries and the two typescripts of Don Juan housed in the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives. The collection also contains first editions of the vast majority of Torrente Ballester's works, many of which are signed by the author.

Finding Aid

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester Papers, 1954-1964
Located at the M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives. University Libraries, University at Albany. State University of New York.

Related Finding Aid

Roger T. Conant Papers, 1971
Based on Roger T. Conant's account: "Gekas was the inspiration for the main character in Las Isla de los Jacinto Cortados (The Island of the Cut Hyacinths) (1980) by award-winning Spanish novelist Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. Torrente Ballester joined the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Albany in 1966 and remained until 1972. During this period, he met Gekas and later wrote about her in the novel which is partially set on and near the University at Albany campus, features some real professors and other students (some named, some with pseudonyms) and focuses on a love triangle. "