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30 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2003
About the author
Leopoldo Alas
368 books98 followersLeopoldo García-Alas y Ureña (25 April 1852 – 13 June 1901), also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora. He died in Oviedo.
Alas spent his childhood living in León and Guadalajara, until he moved to Oviedo in 1863. There he studied for the Bachillerato (B.A. degree) and began his law studies. He lived in Madrid from 1871 to 1878, where he began his career as a journalist (adopting the pen-name "Clarín" in 1875) and he graduated with the thesis El Derecho y la Moralidad (Law and Morality) in 1878. He taught in Zaragoza from 1882 to 1883. In 1883 he returned to Oviedo to take up a position as professor of Roman law.
Above all, Clarín is the author of La Regenta, his masterpiece and one of the best novels of the 19th century. It is a long work, similar to Flaubert's Madame Bovary, one of its influences. Other influences included Naturalism and Krausism, a philosophical current which promoted the cultural and ethical regeneration of Spain.
La Regenta is special for its great wealth of characters and secondary stories, while the main character's description is left slightly unfocused and vague. On the other hand, the downfall of the provincial lady has a place amidst two very diverse suitors: the most handsome man in the city and the cathedral's priest. The depiction of this priest is a key part of the book.
For the description of the provincial atmosphere and the city's collective life, Clarín used techniques such as the internal monologue or the free indirect style, which makes the story be narrated by the characters themselves and allows the reader to penetrate in their intimacy.
In 1890, he published a new novel, Su único hijo. Even though most critics consider it as a lesser novel in comparison with La Regenta, it is equal to the former in the skill with which the technical resources are used. Su único hijo was originally meant to be the introduction to a trilogy, but aside from an outline and a few fragments of the two sequels, Su único hijo was Clarín's last full-length novel.
Apart from these works, Clarín is also the author of magnificent stories and of a large number of journalistic articles. He also wrote an essay, La Literatura en 1881 (1882), in collaboration with Armando Palacio Valdés.
Leopoldo Alas remains a rather enigmatic figure in the Spanish literary world, leaving a legacy that encouraged the search for God and humanism simultaneously. This aberrant confluence has facilitated the presence of various interpretations regarding the author's writings, most noticeably of his masterpiece, La Regenta.
Alas spent his childhood living in León and Guadalajara, until he moved to Oviedo in 1863. There he studied for the Bachillerato (B.A. degree) and began his law studies. He lived in Madrid from 1871 to 1878, where he began his career as a journalist (adopting the pen-name "Clarín" in 1875) and he graduated with the thesis El Derecho y la Moralidad (Law and Morality) in 1878. He taught in Zaragoza from 1882 to 1883. In 1883 he returned to Oviedo to take up a position as professor of Roman law.
Above all, Clarín is the author of La Regenta, his masterpiece and one of the best novels of the 19th century. It is a long work, similar to Flaubert's Madame Bovary, one of its influences. Other influences included Naturalism and Krausism, a philosophical current which promoted the cultural and ethical regeneration of Spain.
La Regenta is special for its great wealth of characters and secondary stories, while the main character's description is left slightly unfocused and vague. On the other hand, the downfall of the provincial lady has a place amidst two very diverse suitors: the most handsome man in the city and the cathedral's priest. The depiction of this priest is a key part of the book.
For the description of the provincial atmosphere and the city's collective life, Clarín used techniques such as the internal monologue or the free indirect style, which makes the story be narrated by the characters themselves and allows the reader to penetrate in their intimacy.
In 1890, he published a new novel, Su único hijo. Even though most critics consider it as a lesser novel in comparison with La Regenta, it is equal to the former in the skill with which the technical resources are used. Su único hijo was originally meant to be the introduction to a trilogy, but aside from an outline and a few fragments of the two sequels, Su único hijo was Clarín's last full-length novel.
Apart from these works, Clarín is also the author of magnificent stories and of a large number of journalistic articles. He also wrote an essay, La Literatura en 1881 (1882), in collaboration with Armando Palacio Valdés.
Leopoldo Alas remains a rather enigmatic figure in the Spanish literary world, leaving a legacy that encouraged the search for God and humanism simultaneously. This aberrant confluence has facilitated the presence of various interpretations regarding the author's writings, most noticeably of his masterpiece, La Regenta.
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July 16, 2022
Uma família recatada resolve ir ao teatro, mas uma indefinição quanto aos preços e a peça a ser assistida faz com que percam o horário. Acabam indo a uma feira com espetáculos alguns gratuitos outros bem baratos. Entram na tenda da famosa mulher gorda.
Hum o barato, às vezes, sai caro
Hum o barato, às vezes, sai caro
June 15, 2025
Libro corto, de trama sencilla, con personajes bien delineados. Casto Avecilla es un escribiente (de inmediato me acordé de "Bartleby, el escribiente" de Herman Melville). Un burócrata frustrado, pobre,
que hace gala de saber demasiado y desde luego no es así. Usa sin ton ni son, todas las palabras rimbombantes, aunque desconoce su significado.
Un día decide darse un lujo con su familia. Irán al teatro. Después de dudar entre las opciones terminan en un espectáculo público morboso y gratuito en el que se presenta una mujer exageradamente gorda. Casto toca a la mujer para comprobarlo. Y se genera un escándalo entre el público. Cree haber corrompido a su hija por haberla llevado al espectáculo.
La atmósfera del relato es de desesperanza, sin futuro y de pobreza en muchos sentidos.
que hace gala de saber demasiado y desde luego no es así. Usa sin ton ni son, todas las palabras rimbombantes, aunque desconoce su significado.
Un día decide darse un lujo con su familia. Irán al teatro. Después de dudar entre las opciones terminan en un espectáculo público morboso y gratuito en el que se presenta una mujer exageradamente gorda. Casto toca a la mujer para comprobarlo. Y se genera un escándalo entre el público. Cree haber corrompido a su hija por haberla llevado al espectáculo.
La atmósfera del relato es de desesperanza, sin futuro y de pobreza en muchos sentidos.
March 21, 2026
Es tan hermoso lo que este hombre dejó escrito, a través de un personaje retrata toda la sociedad, su manera de vivir, de pensar, de comportarse, comer, relacionarse, remendar su ropa y buscar la felicidad que consideran no merecer.
Pero... qué es la culpa si no la sentimos? o, peor aún, ¿Somos pecadores de pecados que nos inventamos en nuestro intento de ser recatados?
Me pareció hermosa esta historia y realmente con mucho contenido, tengo mucho por debatir acerca de ella, me encanta!
Pero... qué es la culpa si no la sentimos? o, peor aún, ¿Somos pecadores de pecados que nos inventamos en nuestro intento de ser recatados?
Me pareció hermosa esta historia y realmente con mucho contenido, tengo mucho por debatir acerca de ella, me encanta!
February 22, 2026
Hombre cabal y puritano, humilde y petulante con ínfulas de intelectual, Casto Avecilla es un personaje decimonónico que, de una anécdota, genera un conflicto moral. Al cabo, un cuento muy entretenido que merece mucho la pena leer por la gracia y la altura estilística de la prosa de Clarín.
August 5, 2023
alas divertidísimo como siempre
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