by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · Alhambra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420511016
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«El sombrero de tres picos» is the short novel by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón published by Alhambra in paperback, with 44 pages in Spanish.
Set in 19th-century Andalusia, the plot follows the corregidor, a royal official who tries to seduce the miller's wife Frasquita, spouse of Uncle Lucas, and causes a tangle full of misunderstandings. The novel stands out for its costumbrista portrait, ironic humour and critique of corruption and abuse of power.
A classic of 19th-century Spanish literature, originally published in 1874; this edition dates from 1992.
For readers interested in Spanish classics and 19th-century costumbrista narrative, with a short and humorous tale.
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).
