His Only Son: With Dona Berta by Leopoldo Alas (English) Paperback Book

Description: His Only Son by Leopoldo Alas, Margaret Jull Costa Dona 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The unlikely hero of His Only Son, Bonifacio Reyes, is a romantic and a flautist by vocation-and a failed clerk and kept husband by necessity-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, Bonifacios wife experiences a parallel awakening and in the midst of a long-barren marriage, surprises them both with a son-but is it Bonifacios? In the accompanying novella, Dona 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 Alass second and final novel, full of characteristic humor, naturalistic detail, descriptive beauty, and moral complexity. His frail and pitiful characters-irrational, emotional actors drawn inexorably toward their foolish fates-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. Author Biography Leopoldo Alas (1852-1901) was the son of a government official, born in Zamora, Spain. He attended the University of Oviedo and the University of Madrid, receiving a doctorate in law. A novelist and writer of short stories who adopted the pseudonym Clarin (Bugle), Alas was one of Spains most influential literary critics. He became a professor of law at the University of Oviedo in 1883 and published his first and best-known novel, La Regenta, in 1884; his second novel, Su onico hijo (His Only Son), was published in 1890. He died in Oviedo at the age of forty-nine.Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator for nearly thirty years and has translated works by novelists such as E a de Queir z, Jose Saramago, Javier Marias, and Fernando Pessoa, as well as poets such as Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Ana Luisa Amaral. She has won various prizes, most recently the 2015 Marsh Award for Childrens Fiction in Translation for Bernardo Atxagas The Adventures of Shola. In 2013 she was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2014 was awarded an Order of the British Empire for services to literature. In 2015 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Leeds. Review "His Only Son is the most intense, the most refined, the most intellectual, and the most sensual novel that nineteenth-century Spanish literature has produced." —Azorín"When I read His Only Son and Doña Berta, I was bowled over by the audacity of the plots, by the diverse cast of characters, and by Alass ability to be entirely engagedby his characters." —Margaret Jull costa, from the introduction"A delight to read." —A Common Reader blog "A Flaubert-type novel [that] displays the authors power of psychological analysis." —Harvey L. Johnson, The South Central Bulletin Promotional Now in new translations, these two novels by the father of the modern Spanish short story have been unavailable in the United States for decades. Perfect for fans of Spanish and 19th-century literature. Review Quote "A delight to read." -- A Common Reader blog Details ISBN1681370182 Author Margaret Jull Costa Short Title HIS ONLY SON Pages 344 Language English Translator Margaret Jull Costa ISBN-10 1681370182 ISBN-13 9781681370187 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint The New York Review of Books, Inc Subtitle With Dona Berta Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Year 2016 DEWEY 863.5 Edition Main Publication Date 2016-10-04 UK Release Date 2016-10-04 AU Release Date 2016-10-04 NZ Release Date 2016-10-04 US Release Date 2016-10-04 Narrator Tom Judd Birth 1939 Affiliation Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Bipolar Clinic and Reseach Program, Massachusetts General Hospital Position Associate Professor of Psychiatry Qualifications PsyD Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc Edition Description Main Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:123721726;

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