by Leopoldo Alas Clarín · EL PAIS/CLASICOS ESPAGNOLES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498150124
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«La Regenta» is the novel by Leopoldo Alas «Clarín», published by El País/Clásicos Españoles in paperback (732 pages, in Spanish).
In Vetusta, a provincial city evoking Oviedo, Ana Ozores lives a tedious marriage with the former regent Víctor de Quintanar, much older than her. Between the devotion inspired by the cleric Fermín de Pas and the attraction to the womanizer Álvaro de Mesía, the novel portrays the hypocrisy and moral decay of the provincial bourgeoisie.
The work, originally published between 1884 and 1885, is set in Vetusta, a fictional city inspired by Oviedo.
Recommended for readers of Spanish literature classics and nineteenth-century realism.
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.
