{"product_id":"belarmino-y-apolonio-paperback","title":"Belarmino y Apolonio - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRamon Perez de Ayala\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJuan Herrero-Senes\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 03, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42742180806719,"sku":"9781934768709","price":51.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ec1d89fe048a9e9764f2f13b9d81bcbd.webp?v=1765162969","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/belarmino-y-apolonio-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}