by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · ISBN 8425231000025
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«El sombrero de tres picos» is the novella by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, published in 1874 by PML in Spanish.
The action takes place in rural Andalusia in the nineteenth century and revolves around the corregidor, a royal official who attempts to seduce the wife of a miller. The work mixes humour, social criticism and costumbrismo, and offers a portrait of peasant life and honour entanglements.
For readers of Spanish classics and nineteenth-century costumbrista narrative.
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).
