Showing posts with label ALAS Leopoldo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ALAS Leopoldo. Show all posts
Friday, July 29, 2016

’I require gossip worthy of me’ - some last La Regenta notes, symbolic in some mysterious way, voluptuous even

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Another readalong post, by Simon Lavery , on La Regenta covering one of the main characters, the bad priest, in particular how he is introd...
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Thursday, July 28, 2016

seemly abbreviations and a gongoresque style - some bits of La Regenta

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The sarcasm of Leopoldo Alas can be a thing of beauty: They were going to inspect the hunting dogs and a St Bernard which Paco had bought a ...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

as if to make amends, and to deceive himself - La Regenta is a religious novel

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Oh thank goodness someone has already written a better readalong piece about La Regenta .  It is by Scott Bailey .  He goes straight for the...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

the stupidity of people agreeing to get bored together for a day - general impressions of La Regenta

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To remind myself how to write, I will gather some general notes about Leopoldo Alas’s gigantic 1885 novel La Regenta , perhaps still the foc...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

A La Regenta readalong for July - and really also June - it's a long book - the profound self-pity of egotism aroused by its misfortune

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My working theory is that long books make the worst readalong books, yet there has been interest in La Regenta (1885) by Clarín, also known...
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