<p>A classic of contemporary Catalan literature, and a haunting and satirical portrait of a vanishing age, Lloren? Villalonga's "The Dolls' Room" concerns the decline of Don Toni and Dona Maria Ant?nia Bearn: aristocrats, cousins, husband and wife, and members of the decadent, age-old ruling class of a town that bears their name. Their story is told by the na?ve family priest, Don Joan, who was taken under Don Toni's wing as a schoolboy. Describing the shabby grandeur of his benefactors' lives in their ancient, rundown family mansion, their grand but ruinous excursions to Paris and Rome, and the mysterious events that lead to their deaths, the humbly devote Joan is continually challenged, and perhaps titillated, by Don Toni's impious personality, his defiance of church authority, and his scandalous affairs. Partly condemning and partly admiring his devilish mentor, the pure-minded Don Joan's lurid "biography" of the Bearns is a testament to the eternal attractiveness of the libertine, and the lengths to which we go in justifying our own worst impulses.</p>

The Dolls' Room (Catalan Literature)

Literature & Fiction

Villalonga, Llorenç

Literary

Dalkey Archive Press

Bearn o la sala de les nines

Contemporary

Educaula

Bearn o la sala de las muñecas (Spanish Edition)

Malpaso Editorial

Genre Fiction

Edicions 62

Bearn o La Sala de las Muñecas

Seix-Barral

Bearn, o, La sala de las muñecas (Col. Seix Barral) (Spanish Edition)

Bearn, o, La sala de las muñecas (Letras hispánicas) (Spanish Edition)

CATEDRA

Muerte de dama: Edición bilingüe (Colección Marca hispánica) (Spanish Edition)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Edicions de Mall

Relats

Edicions Bromera, S.L.

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