Mar�a Luisa Bombal Anthes was a Chilean author. Daughter of Mart�n Bombal Videla and Blanca Anthes Precht. Her work is now highly regarded, incorporating themes of eroticism, surrealism and feminism, and she ranks among a small number of Latin American female authors whose works received worldwide acclaim. Following the death of her father, Mart�n Bombal Videla, in 1922, the twelve-year-old Mar�a Luisa was sent to Paris, where she studied at the college Sainte Genevi�ve. At the institute for literature at the University of Paris she studied literature and philosophy until her return to South America. She had also attended the Lyc�e La Bruy�re and the Sorbonne at the University of Paris. After her return, she married Elogio S�nchez, who did not share her interest in literature. During their marriage, Bombal began to suffer from depression, and shot her husband after a failed suicide attempt, although he survived. With the help of friends, Mar�a Bombal fled the country to Argentina, where in 1933 she met Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda in Buenos Aires. 

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