by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · Editorial Crítica · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474235845
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«El sombrero de tres picos» is the costumbrista novel by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, published by Editorial Crítica in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
Set in a 19th-century Andalusian village, it tells how the corregidor, smitten with the beautiful Frasquita, wife of the miller Uncle Lucas, plots his arrest to be alone with her. The plan unleashes a tangle of jealousy and revenge that ends up ridiculing the corregidor himself, in a satire of power and honour.
The work was originally published in 1874. Edition, prologue and notes by Eva F. Florensa, with a preliminary study by Sergio Beser. Volume 102 of the Biblioteca Clásica.
For readers of Spanish classics and literature students seeking an annotated edition with critical apparatus.
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).
