La Regenta (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Leopoldo Alas
- First Published: 1884
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1870’s
- Setting: Vetusta, Spain
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Literature, Middle classes, Marriage, Women’s issues, Adultery, Drama or dramatists, Duels or dueling, Priests, Spain or Spanish people
- Locales: Spain
Characters Discussed
Ana Ozores (oh-SOH-rehs), the judge’s wife. She is a beautiful, sensitive woman of twenty- seven who has endured eight years of a childless marriage. A tireless reader of mystical and romantic literature, she longs to escape the suffocating world of the provincial capital in which she lives, the imaginary city of Vetusta. Her fabled virtue as a model wife is imperiled as she finds herself alternately torn between the promise of sexual fulfillment offered by the libertine Don Alvaro and the hope of spiritual communion with the priest Fermín de Pas....
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