Tab Article

"She didn"t call brief, fleeting flings love. She didn"t call sensuality love. And sensuality doubled her sadness, vague and indefinable. " Leopoldo Alas, also known as "Clarín," once stated that Emilia Pardo Bazán was "one of the Spaniards who know the most and understand the best all that they see, think, and feel. Interacting with her means learning a lot. " Critics seem to agree that where she best demonstrates her skill as a writer is precisely in her short storiesbrave, modern, and impeccably wrought. Reading them brings delightful surprises. Eva Acosta, biographer of the countess and one of the great specialists in her work, has carried out a rigorous selection of her best short stories. Whether tales of fantasy, crime, realism, humor, mystery, history, or intimate portraits, this anthology constitutes one of the heights of 19th-century Spanish narrative.