His Only Son
With Dona Berta
$39.11
- Paperback
344 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2016
Summary
Now in new translations, these two novels by the father of the modern Spanish short story have been unavailable in the United States for decades. Perfect for fans of Spanish and 19th-century literature.
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 Ser…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681370187 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681370182 |
| Author: | Leopoldo Alas, Margaret Jull Costa |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 344g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 127mm x 16mm |
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What They're Saying
Critics Review
“A delight to read.” – A Common Reader blog
“His Only Son is the most intense, the most refined, the most intellectual, and the most sensual novel that nineteenth-century Spanish literature has produced.” —Azorín
“When I read His Only Son and Doña Berta, I was bowled over by the audacity of the plots, by the diverse cast of characters, and by Alas’s ability to be entirely engaged
by his characters.” —Margaret Jull costa, from the introduction
“A delight to read.” —A Common Reader blog
“A Flaubert-type novel [that] displays the author’s power of psychological analysis.” —Harvey L. Johnson, The South Central Bulletin
About The Author
Leopoldo Alas
Leopoldo Alas (1852-1901) was the son of a government official, born in Zamora, Spain. He attended the University of Oviedo and the University of Madrid, receiving a doctorate in law. A novelist and writer of short stories who adopted the pseudonym Clarin (Bugle), Alas was one of Spain’s most influential literary critics. He became a professor of law at the University of Oviedo in 1883 and published his first and best-known novel, La Regenta, in 1884; his second novel, Su único hijo (His Only Son), was published in 1890. He died in Oviedo at the age of forty-nine.
Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator for nearly thirty years and has translated works by novelists such as Eça de Queirós, Jose Saramago, Javier Marías, and Fernando Pessoa, as well as poets such as Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Ana Luisa Amaral. She has won various prizes, most recently the 2015 Marsh Award for Children’s Fiction in Translation for Bernardo Atxaga’s The Adventures of Shola. In 2013 she was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2014 was awarded an Order of the British Empire for services to literature. In 2015 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Leeds.
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