by Juan Valera · Editorial Planeta, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432084232
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«Pepita Jiménez» is the novel by Juan Valera, published by Editorial Planeta, S.A. in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
Luis de Vargas, a young seminarian, returns to his Andalusian village and wavers between his religious vocation and the attraction he feels for the widow Pepita Jiménez. With an epistolary structure, the story portrays the conflict between faith and desire and criticizes the social conventions of nineteenth-century Andalusia.
Work originally published in 1874; this edition by Editorial Planeta dates from 1991.
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano was a Spanish realist author, diplomat, and politician.
