Leopoldo Alas (Clarín)

Leopoldo Alas (Clarín) PDF Author: Noël Maureen Valis
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1855660822
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Novelist-critic Leopoldo Alas's reputation suffered neglect and silent reproval during much of the twentieth century, especially under the Franco regime, but his reputation has now achieved classic status in Spain. Clearly related to this is the great increase in the number of translations - Julian Barnes called La Regenta 'the foreign classic tardily discovered'. This bibliography picks up where the first one left off in 1984. It is divided into primary material and secondary material. Primary material includes: Anthologies and Selections; Criticism; Novels; Short Story Collections; Plays; Correspondence; Prologues; Reprints; Translations; and Miscellaneous, with two new categories: autograph manuscripts and iconography.

Leopoldo Alas (Clarín)

Leopoldo Alas (Clarín) PDF Author: Noël Maureen Valis
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1855660822
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Book Description
Novelist-critic Leopoldo Alas's reputation suffered neglect and silent reproval during much of the twentieth century, especially under the Franco regime, but his reputation has now achieved classic status in Spain. Clearly related to this is the great increase in the number of translations - Julian Barnes called La Regenta 'the foreign classic tardily discovered'. This bibliography picks up where the first one left off in 1984. It is divided into primary material and secondary material. Primary material includes: Anthologies and Selections; Criticism; Novels; Short Story Collections; Plays; Correspondence; Prologues; Reprints; Translations; and Miscellaneous, with two new categories: autograph manuscripts and iconography.

His Only Son

His Only Son PDF Author: Leopoldo Alas
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681370190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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The unlikely hero of His Only Son, Bonifacio Reyes, is a romantic and a flautist by vocation—and a failed clerk and kept husband by necessity—who dreams of a novelesque life. Tied to his shrill and sickly wife by her purse strings, he enters timidly into a love affair with Serafina, a seductive second-rate opera singer, encouraged by her manager who mistakes Bonifacio for a potential patron. Meanwhile, Bonifacio’s wife experiences a parallel awakening and in the midst of a long-barren marriage, surprises them both with a son—but is it Bonifacio’s? In the accompanying novella, Doña Berta, the heroine of the title, an aged, poor, but well-born woman, forfeits her beloved estate in search of a portrait that may be all that remains of the secret love of her life. While largely unknown outside of Spain, Leopoldo Alas was one of the most celebrated writers of criticism in nineteenth-century Spain and employed his satirical talents to powerful and humorous effect in fiction. His Only Son was Alas’s second and final novel, full of characteristic humor, naturalistic detail, descriptive beauty, and moral complexity. His frail and pitiful characters—irrational, emotional actors drawn inexorably toward their foolish fates—are yet multidimensional individuals, often conscious of their own weaknesses and stymied by their very yearnings to be more than the parts they find themselves playing.

Ten Tales

Ten Tales PDF Author: Leopoldo Alas
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754368
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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"The short stories explore themes that concern the interior person, the inner being. "A Day Laborer" tells of a liberal intellectual who can identify with exploited laborers because he himself has been exploited; "Change of Light" describes the spiritual peace that comes to a writer as a result of physical blindness; "The Golden Rose" shows through a series of contrasts - good and evil, heaven and earth, light and darkness - that virtue and sacrifice are rewarded; "Queen Margaret" chronicles the misery of failed opera singers who find happiness after leaving the short-lived glory of the theater; "Torso" relates the faithfulness of a servant who is rejected by a young master; "The Burial of the Sardine," with echoes of Francisco de Goya, represents the ephemeral nature of joy as experienced during Shrovetide in a city dominated by the clergy; and "Two Scholars" recounts how envy and vanity affect a personal relationship."--BOOK JACKET.

Short Stories from the Spanish

Short Stories from the Spanish PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories

The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories PDF Author: Margaret Jull Costa
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241390524
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 437

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Book Description
This exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends old favourites and hidden gems - many of which have never before been translated into English - and introduces readers to surprising new voices as well as giants of Spanish literary culture, from Emilia Pardo Bazán and Leopoldo Alas, through Mercè Rodoreda and Manuel Rivas, to Ana Maria Matute and Javier Marías. Brimming with romance, horror, history, farce, strangeness and beauty, and showcasing alluring hairdressers, war defectors, vampiric mothers, and talismanic mandrake roots, the daring and entertaining assortment of tales in The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories will be a treasure trove for readers.

Spanish Stories

Spanish Stories PDF Author: Angel Flores
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486122522
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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DIVUnique format offers 13 great stories in Spanish — from classics by Cervantes and Alarcon to contemporary works by Borges and Goytisolo. Complete faithful English translations on facing pages. /div

The Nineteenth-century Spanish Story

The Nineteenth-century Spanish Story PDF Author: Lou Charnon-Deutsch
Publisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN: 9780729302135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change

Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change PDF Author: Jennifer Smith
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1684480329
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and honors Maryellen Bieder's invaluable scholarly contributions. The critical analyses are situated within their specific socio-historical context, and shed new light on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, and culture.

The Moral Tales

The Moral Tales PDF Author: Kenneth A. Stackhouse
Publisher: Univ Publ Assn
ISBN: 1461723736
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Book Description
Now, for the first time, the stories of Spanish writer Leopoldo Alas have been translated into English. This is an important collection from a writer who is remembered as a master story-teller.

Short Stories by the Generation of 1898/Cuentos de la Generación de 1898

Short Stories by the Generation of 1898/Cuentos de la Generación de 1898 PDF Author: Miguel de Unamuno
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486120643
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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These 13 short stories by 5 authors of the era include 4 tales by Miguel de Unamuno along with the works of Valle-Inclán, Blasco Ibánez, Baroja, and "Azorín" (José Martínez Ruiz).