His Only Begotten Son

Title: His Only Begotten Son

Author: Clarín

Binding: Hardcover

EAN: 9789044613346

Condition: Good

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Description:
A dull third-rate provincial capital in Spain, in the second half of the nineteenth century. The clerk Bonifacio Reyes is married to the rich, selfish and loveless Emma, ​​but when an opera company visits the town he falls in love with the soprano Serafina. The capricious Emma also seems to fall for the charms of a member of the company, the baritone Minghetti. When the condemned Emma turns out to be pregnant and gives birth to a son, the local community seems to have no doubt about who the child's father is.

For too long, His Only Begotten Son has stood in the shadow of ClarÃn's best-known novel La Regenta. With biting mockery, ClarÃn - pseudonym of Leopoldo Alas (1852-1901) - tells this operatic story full of scheming, calculation, desperate love and infidelity. The traces of the severe emotional, ideological and spiritual crisis that the writer, as a child of his time, went through during the writing process are clearly visible. This novel takes the reader through deep valleys, dizzying abysses and high peaks, while imagining himself in nineteenth-century Spain.

"His Only-Begotten Son is the most intense, most refined, most intellectual and at the same time the most sensual novel in all of Spanish literature of the nineteenth century."
josé martÃnez ruiz, the most important spanish critic of the twentieth century