by Manuel Azaña · Albia · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474360011
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«El jardín de los frailes» is the novel by Manuel Azaña, published by Albia in paperback (167 pages, in Spanish).
Manuel Azaña recreates his teenage years at a religious school in El Escorial, where he received a rigid education. The work follows the psychological evolution of a young man: the awakening of aesthetic sensibility, ironic distance from dogmatic knowledge, and a growing reflection on the Church's place in the regeneration of Spain.
The work was serialized in the magazine «La Pluma» between 1921 and 1922 and published as a book in 1927; this 1977 Albia edition opens the Albia Literaria collection.
Of interest to readers of twentieth-century Spanish fiction and to those wishing to discover Manuel Azaña's literary side.
Manuel Azaña Díaz was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic, organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Republic (1936–1939). He has been called the father of the Republic and was the most prominent leader of the Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939.
