Su único hijo. English

His only son : with Doña Berta / Leopoldo Alas ; translated from the Spanish and with an introduction by Margaret Jull Costa.

New York : New York Review Books, [2016]

xi, 318 pages ; 21 cm.

Translated from the Spanish.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Doña Berta

Online version: Alas, Leopoldo, 1852-1901, author. His only son. New York : New York Review Books, 2016

English

May 01, 2017