by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Rafael Rodríguez Marín · Castalia Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470396687
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«El sombrero de tres picos» is the short novel by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, published by Castalia Ediciones in 1993 in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Andalusia at the end of the 18th century, it tells how the corregidor, a royal official, tries to court Frasquita, the beautiful miller's wife married to the honest uncle Lucas. The resulting misunderstanding triggers a series of comic entanglements that satirize social differences and the theme of honor, within a costumbrista and realist portrait.
The work belongs to the Castalia Didáctica collection, number 32, with edition and introduction by Rafael Rodríguez Marín. This school edition includes chronological tables, complete text, notes and attention calls, documents and study guidelines.
Recommended for students of Spanish literature, reading from age 10 and readers interested in 19th-century realism and costumbrismo.
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).
