His only son : with Doña Berta /

One of the most celebrated writers of criticism in nineteenth-century Spain, Leopoldo Alas employed his satirical talent to powerful and humorous effect in fiction as well. In His Only Son, Bonifacio Reyes, a romantic flautist by vocation, and a failed clerk and kept husband by necessity, dreams of...

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Main Author: Alas, Leopoldo, 1852-1901 (Author)
Other Authors: Costa, Margaret Jull (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York Review Books, [2016]
Series:New York Review Books classics.
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Summary:One of the most celebrated writers of criticism in nineteenth-century Spain, Leopoldo Alas employed his satirical talent to powerful and humorous effect in fiction as well. In His Only Son, Bonifacio Reyes, a romantic flautist by vocation, and a failed clerk and kept husband by necessity, dreams of a novelesque life. Tied to his shrill and sickly wife by her purse strings, he enters timidly into a love affair with Serafina, a seductive second-rate opera singer, encouraged by her manager who mistakes Bonifacio for a potential patron. Meanwhile, Bonifacio's wife experiences a parallel awakening and in the midst of a long-barren marriage, surprises them both with a son, but is it Bonifacio's? In the accompanying novella, Doña Berta, an aged, poor, but well-born woman forfeits her beloved estate in search of a portrait that may be all that remains of the secret love of her life.
Physical Description:xi, 318 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:9781681370187
1681370182