La La Regenta / The Regent's Wife by Leopoldo Alas

La La Regenta / The Regent's Wife by Leopoldo Alas

Edición de Gregorio Torres Nebrera, catedrático de Literatura Española en la Universidad de Extremadura.

En las páginas de La Regenta se recrea un gran fresco narrativo sobre la sociedad burguesa y urbana, dominada por la nobleza decadente, el clero egoísta y la política caciquil, centrado en la seducción y el adulterio de una dama, Ana Ozores, representativa de aquella sociedad. Influido por la escuela naturalista fundamentada en Zola y Maupassant, pero anclado aún en argumentos románticos, Leopoldo Alas «Clarín» escribió la que ha sido considerada como la mejor novela del siglo XIX español.

Esta edición incluye una introducción que contextualiza la obra, un aparato de notas, una cronología y una bibliografía esencial, así como también varias propuestas de discusión y debate en torno a la lectura. Estuvo a su cuidado Gregorio Torres Nebrera, catedrático de literatura española de la Universidad de Extremadura.

«Cuanto más nos acercamos al término de nuestra ambición, más distante parece el objeto deseado.»

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Married to the retired magistrate of Vetusta, Ana Ozores cares deeply for her much older husband but feels stifled by the monotony of her life in the shabby and conservative provincial town. And when she embarks on a quest for fulfillment through religion and even adultery, a bitter struggle begins between a powerful priest and a would-be Don Juan for the passionate young woman's body and soul. Scandalizing contemporary Spain when it was first published in 1885, with its searing critique of the Church and its frank treatment of sex, La Regenta is a compelling and witty depiction of the complacent and frivolous world of upper-class society.

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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 Clarü¾™†”¼n (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 ü¾˜–˜¼nico 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 Eü¾¶”¼a de Queirü¾Œ¶˜¼z, Josü¾Ž–”¼ Saramago, Javier Marü¾™†”¼as, and Fernando Pessoa, as well as poets such as Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Ana Luü¾™†”¼sa 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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ISBN 13	9788491050179
ISBN 10	8491050175
Title	La La Regenta / The Regent's Wife
Author	Leopoldo Alas
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Clasicos
Year published	2016-11-29
Number of pages	264
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