Leer en Espanol: Level 6: Los Pazos de Ulloa (Paperback)

from sometimeunderwater

A largely-forgotten classic of 19th century Spanish literature, dusted off for a new publication by Penguin a few years back. I found a tatty paperback of it in some back-alley bookshop in Colombia, and devoured it happily. Wonderfully merging the gothic and the farcical, the novel rotates aroun...

from stillatim

A very odd little book, but wildly enjoyable: priestsploitation, plus gothicising HORROR, but the very next paragraph is broad satire or slapstick, so the gothic becomes funny. And I assume that's intentional. It moves very quickly for the 19th century, which helps. Even the clunky "oh, this book...

from cammykitty

The House of Ulloa is a late 19th century classic from Spain, written by a woman too!!! This novel was many things, and a certainly don't know how to give you a synopsis. A naive priest (yes, many a Latino story starts with a naive priest) is sent to work as the chaplain for the House of Ulloa, a...

from madepercy

This book was hard to put down. Unlike Charlotte Brontë and Mary Shelley (even though I admire their work); not to mention era, translation, and social-construction-of-gender issues, Bazán writes of a socially-constructed man better than any biologically-female woman from the nineteenth century I...

from cammykitty

The House of Ulloa is a late 19th century classic from Spain, written by a woman too!!! This novel was many things, and a certainly don't know how to give you a synopsis. A naive priest (yes, many a Latino story starts with a naive priest) is sent to work as the chaplain for the House of Ulloa, a...