Vicente Blasco Ibanez: The Holding (La Barraca) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780856685958)

This passionate and moving story of social injustice, violence and revenge, set in the Valencian huerta, has become the classic text of Spanish regional realism. Blasco Ibanez, the 'Spanish Zola', dramatically confronts one of the great social issues of the late nineteenth century, the possession of land, in a vivid recreation of the local types and traditional customs of a closed rural community which jealousy guards its rights and administers its own rough justice against the outsider. The novel is both a lyrical hymn to nature and an expose of man's inhumanity to man, narrated with a human compassion worthy of his master, Galdos. Spanish text with facing-page translation, introduction and notes.

Author: Lester Clark,Eric Farrington Farrington Birchall,Patricia McDermott
ISBN-10: 085668595X
ISBN-13: 9780856685958
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1993
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.00w x 0.50d