by Leopoldo Alas Clarín · Ediciones Orbis, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440216557
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«La Regenta» is the realist novel by Leopoldo Alas «Clarín», published by Ediciones Orbis in hardback (735 pages, in Spanish).
Ana Ozores, wife of the regent of Vetusta, endures a loveless marriage and the pressure of a provincial, gossiping town. Between the attentions of a suitor and the influence of her confessor, the protagonist wavers between desire and repression, in an ironic critique of the hypocrisy of nineteenth-century Spanish society.
La Regenta was published in 1884-1885. This edition by Ediciones Orbis (Barcelona, 1994) is from the Historia de la literatura española collection and follows the third edition (1901) revised by the author.
For readers interested in European realist fiction and Spanish classics.
Leopoldo Enrique García-Alas y Ureña, also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist and journalist born in Zamora. His inflammatory articles, known as paliques (“chitchat”), as well as his advocacy of liberalism and anti-clericalism, made him a formidable and controversial critical voice. He died in Oviedo.
