by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · Castalia Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497401678
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«El clavo y otras narraciones» is the collection of short stories by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, published by Castalia Ediciones in paperback (253 pp., in Spanish).
The collection brings together four narratives by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón: «El clavo», a detective story inspired by a famous case; «El capitán Veneno», an ironic comedy about the «tamed man»; «El extranjero», a denunciation of the cruelty of war; and «El libro talonario», a rural tale with humor and costumbrismo.
Volume 037 of the Castalia Prima collection, annotated edition prepared by Tomás Rodríguez Sánchez. Includes reading guide and bibliography on pages 251-253.
For young readers approaching the classics of Spanish literature.
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, known best for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of popular traditions which provides a description of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia. It was the basis for Hugo Wolf's opera Der Corregidor (1897); for Riccardo Zandonai's opera La farsa amorosa (1933); and Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat (1919).
