Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Alas, Leopoldo, 1852-1901

Publication

New York : New York Review Books, [2016]

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Additional Authors

Costa, Margaret Jull

Description

xi, 318 pages; 21 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

New York Review Books classics

Uniform Title

• Su único hijo. English
• New York Review Books classics

Alternative Title

• Su único hijo.
• Doña Berta

Subject

• Spouses > Fiction
• Family secrets > Fiction
• FICTION > Literary
• FICTION > Satire
• FICTION > Psychological
• Family secrets
• Spouses

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Psychological fiction.
• Satire, Spanish.
• Fiction.

Note

• Translated from the Spanish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781681370187
• 1681370182

LCCN

^^2016012597

OCLC

• 934676548
• SCSB-11334889

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library