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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ramon Perez de Ayala , Juan Herrero-SenesPublisher: StockCERO Imprint: StockCERO Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.347kg ISBN: 9781934768709ISBN 10: 1934768707 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 03 June 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Language: Spanish Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |