by Llorenç Villalonga · ALFABIA EDICIONES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788461318391
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«Bearn o la sala de las muñecas» is the novel by Llorenç Villalonga, published by Alfabia Ediciones in paperback (430 pages, in Spanish).
Don Antonio de Bearn, an aristocrat of dissolute life, retires to his estate in Mallorca to write his memoirs and save from oblivion the feudal Mallorca that fades with him. The story, narrated by the priest Don Joan, portrays the decline of the rural nobility and the end of the Ancien Régime, amid the splendours of Second Empire Paris and the secrets of the Bearn mansion.
Originally published in 1956, it is the fifth number of the Alfabia collection and won the Premi de la Crítica de Narrativa Catalana in 1962.
Llorenç Villalonga i Pons was a Balearic writer and psychiatrist. While he progressed in his medicine studies, Villalonga traveled to France, Barcelona and Murcia. He gained experience in psychiatry during his stay in France.
