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Belarmino y Apolonio

Belarmino y Apolonio

Perez de Ayala, Ramon
Herrero-Senes, Juan

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ISBN10: 1934768707
ISBN13: 9781934768709
Publisher: Stockcero
Published: Jun 3 2013
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Spanish
Published in 1921, Belarmino y Apolonio probably is the best novel written by the Spanish Asturias-born writer Ramon Perez de Ayala, and certainly a most significant one among those published during the so-called Spanish culture Silver Age (1898-1936). According to the French hispanist critic Jean Cassou Belarmino y Apolonio should be considered one of the most important novels in Spanish literature, second only to El Quijote. The novel appears at first sight to be a story that could be classified as costumbrismo or even romantic pulp fiction: the forbidden love between a young seminarist and a beautiful girl, son and daughter respectively of two shoemakers who happen to hate each other. But in truth the work constitutes a singular mechanism of mirrors and retelling, and a continuous pondering upon human behavior, up to the point that the reader soon realizes that one of the cobblers is a philosopher who happens to have invented a new language, and the other one considers himself to be a playwright and normally speaks in verse. With this novel Perez de Ayala presents a fictional research on the point of view, the contrast and, finally, the relativeness and contingency of human opinion, and how do these affect the precious good called happiness, in a text that combines cultural references and an essay-like style with a precise narrative structure, all encompassed in a playful and ironic tone of voice.

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