by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420669106
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«El clavo y otros cuentos» is the short-story anthology by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together some of Pedro Antonio de Alarcón's most representative stories, such as «El clavo», «La mujer alta» and «La Comendadora». «El clavo» is considered a forerunner of the detective story in Spain. Arturo Ramoneda's introduction offers a portrait of the author and contextualizes the stories within his literary career.
2010 edition in the El libro de bolsillo - Literatura collection; the selection, introduction and notes are by Arturo Ramoneda.
For readers of nineteenth-century Spanish classics and short fiction interested in the forerunners of the detective story in Spain.
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).
