Libros de Ramón Pérez De Ayala (2 libros)

Published 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...

Esta obra, comienzo de la etapa de plenitud de la novela de Perez de Ayala, presenta un dualismo (zapatero "filosofo" zapatero "dramaturgo") que, mas que ejemplificar dos teorias contrapuestas, supone diferentes perspectivas para ejemplificar el universo, complejo y humoristico, de los personajes.