His Only Son: with Dona Berta (New York Review Books Classics)

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His Only Son: with Dona Berta (New York Review Books Classics)

The unlikely hero of His Only Son, Bonifacio Reyes, is a romantic and a flautist by vocationâ€”and a failed clerk and kept husband by necessityâ€”who 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, Bonifacioâ€™s wife experiences a parallel awakening and in the midst of a long-barren marriage, surprises them both with a sonâ€”but is it Bonifacioâ€™s? In the accompanying novella, DoÃ±a Berta, the heroine of the title, 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.

While largely unknown outside of Spain, Leopoldo Alas was one of the most celebrated writers of criticism in nineteenth-century Spain and employed his satirical talents to powerful and humorous effect in fiction. His Only Son was Alasâ€™s second and final novel, full of characteristic humor, naturalistic detail, descriptive beauty, and moral complexity. His frail and pitiful charactersâ€”irrational, emotional actors drawn inexorably toward their foolish fatesâ€”are yet multidimensional individuals, often conscious of their own weaknesses and stymied by their very yearnings to be more than the parts they find themselves playing.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color Burgundy/maroon
ReleaseDate 2016-10-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781681370187

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
Color	Burgundy/maroon
ReleaseDate	2016-10-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781681370187

His Only Son: with Dona Berta (New York Review Books Classics)

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