by Francisco Umbral · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439583493
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«Las señoritas de Aviñón» is the novel by Francisco Umbral, published in 1999 by Planeta-De Agostini in hardback (236 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Algadefina, aunt of the narrator Francesillo, and a group of women from powerful families who live stories of luxury, love and sex against a melancholy backdrop. The action takes place in turn-of-the-century Madrid, with Picasso and Unamuno among its characters, and evokes the Generation of '98, Modernism and regenerationism.
It belongs to the «Francesillo» series by Francisco Umbral and to the collection «Los grandes autores de la narrativa española actual».
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and those interested in the turn of the century, the Generation of '98 and Modernism.
Francisco Alejandro Pérez Martínez, better known as Francisco Umbral, was a Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist.
