by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · Salvat Editores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434585188
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«El escándalo» is the novel by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón published by Salvat Editores in paperback (255 pages, in Spanish).
Fabián Conde, a young aristocrat of dissolute life, tries to redeem himself thanks to the love of Gabriela. The slanders of Gregoria, wife of Fabián's best friend, endanger his honor and his life; faith, guided by the Jesuit Manrique, will be his salvation. The action takes place in high Madrid society in times of the struggle between liberals and Carlists.
Work originally published in 1875; this edition belongs to the Novela y Ocio collection (no. 51). It was adapted into film in 1943 by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia.
It will interest those looking for a classic Spanish novel with an ideological background, representative of late Romanticism and the Restoration.
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).
