La Regenta (Classics)
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It was also translated by John Rutherford whose translations I've appreciated in the past. What I found, though, was a book that I adored at moments and hated to the point of dreading to pick it up and doing some skimming at other times. The fictional setting of Vetusta, Spain is beautiful and the language drew me in for the first pages.
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And then the multitude of characters with multitudes of names for each person began. I've read lots of Russian literature where each person's name takes on different variations, but that was nothing compared to this. Also, Alas introduces many characters up front before they are part of the story, and I always have a hard time with that. In a book with dozens of main characters, I keep them straight best if they are introduced as they become part of the story.
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So I started off kind of confused, but I figured I had all pages of the book to figure it out. The premise was both familiar interesting.
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Ana is a young woman married to a quirky and bumbling older man who is bored. She is looking for fulfillment outside of her marriage and is torn between two men. One is the canon theologian, Don Fermin, who is her Catholic priest and confessor. The other is Don Alvaro, Mesia, who is the town's "Don Juan" - attractive, out-going, and a womanizer. Both men want Ana - Don Fermin being unable to differentiate between his love for Ana's pure religious soul and her beauty and Mesia seeing her mainly as a conquest, but a very desirable one as she seems so unattainable.
Ana herself is torn as well. There is a part of her that desires health, happiness, and nature that she envisions with Don Alvaro, but for the majority of the book she is having what I would describe as religious ecstasies where she gets so wrapped up in religious fervor that she makes herself physically ill. Don Fermin eats this up and loves her all the more for her purity of spirit.
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There is a lot of exploration of how he feels that he possesses her soul as her spiritual adviser. To be honest, I could not quite decipher what happens at the end in a scene between Don Fermin and Ana. Alas leaves this scene very vague. So overall, I'm not sure what to say. Most of the time reading this I didn't enjoy it much.
There were so many diversions into religious philosophy, many digressions, and also time shifts that didn't make much sense.
La Regenta by John Rutherford. Married to the retired Penguin Classics; Published 26th January ; Pages; mm x mm x 31mm; g; £ Editorial Reviews. Review. Decir que ""La Regenta"" es la historia de como unos personajes, inconformes con su mundo, anhelan trascenderlo y son vencidos.
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