Published in Paris in 1914, Cáceres’s novel La rosa muerta, translated by Laura Kanost as A Dead Rose, stands today as the most influential modernista prose work penned by a woman. In this audacious story of an ailing woman who initiates an affair with her gynecologist, Cáceres not only defies cultural conventions of feminine modesty to speak publicly about women’s health and sexuality, but does so by appropriating the language of a literary movement that silenced women.