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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alas, Leopoldo, 1852-1901, author.

Contributor:

Costa, Margaret Jull, translator, writer of introduction.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Standardized Title:

Su único hijo. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Spouses--Fiction.

Spouses.

Family secrets--Fiction.

Family secrets.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Satire, Spanish.

Physical Description:

xi, 318 pages ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Doña Berta

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, [2016]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contains:

Alas, Leopoldo, 1852-1901. Doña Berta. English.

Other Format:

Online version: Alas, Leopoldo, 1852-1901, author. His only son.

ISBN:

9781681370187

1681370182

OCLC:

934676548