La Tribuna: Translated With Commentary - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1786940264 ISBN 13 : 9781786940261

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Emilia Pardo Bazan was born in the Galician town of A Coruna into a noble family who nurtured her lifelong thirst for knowledge. She is undoubtedly the most controversial, influential and prolific Spanish female writer of the nineteenth century, publishing a vast number of essays, social commentaries, articles, reviews, poems, plays, novels, novellas and short stories. Her third novel, La Tribuna, heralds a new age in Spanish literature, a naturalist work of fiction that examines the situation of contemporary women workers. The author's preparation for the novel involved reading and consulting contemporary pamphlets and newspapers, as well as spending two months in a Galician tobacco factory observing and listening to conversations. This method, common in English writers like Dickens and frequently adopted in France by the masters of Realism, was almost unprecedented in Spain. Set against a background of turmoil and civil unrest, La Tribuna reflects the author's interest in the position of women in Spanish society. The working-class heroine, Amparo, develops from a shapeless, apolitical street urchin into a masterpiece of femininity, a charismatic orator who becomes a 'tribune' of the people. At the same time, however, she allows herself to be seduced by a prosperous middle-class youth whose promises prove to be just as empty as the revolutionary slogans in which she believes so fervently.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Graham Whittaker is a translator of Spanish texts, including an acclaimed edition of Sender's Requiem for a Spanish Peasant

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786940264
• ISBN 13: 9781786940261
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 442
• Éditeur: Whittaker Graham
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