by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · Corporación de Medios de Extremadura · ISBN 9788476718278
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«El clavo» is the short mystery and legal drama novel by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, published by Corporación de Medios de Extremadura (118 pages).
The discovery of a human skeleton with a nail in its skull sets off an investigation. The judge handling the case finds that the clues connect him to a love story from his youth, and the novel combines the suspense of the trial with the weight of that reunion. The narrative tension holds until the denouement.
The work belongs to nineteenth-century Spanish narrative; the edition dates from 2005 and the text is in Spanish.
For readers seeking a brief suspense narrative with a romantic and tragic backdrop.
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, known best for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of popular traditions which provides a description of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia. It was the basis for Hugo Wolf's opera Der Corregidor (1897); for Riccardo Zandonai's opera La farsa amorosa (1933); and Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat (1919).
