Don Luis returns to his hometown in Andalucia before beginning a new life as a priest. But fate, in the form of a beautiful woman, seems to have other plans for him.
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A chronicle of change: from feudal to modern Spain,
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This review is from: Santos Inocentes (Paperback)
An aspect that is often neglected in Los santos inocentes is that the hacienda where it takes place is depicted as a remnant of feudal Spain. The location (Extremadura, land of the Reconquista), the "border" where Paco el Bajo and his family are posted, and, most of all, the relations between nobles and plebeians, clearly indicate a societal order in which power relations still follow a Medieval pattern. However, this hierarchical model is not functional anymore, not only because the servants do not see themselves as such, but also because the masters do not carry on their duties: the marchioness lives in Madrid, the young master does not respect the sexual honour of his servants, and the master of Azarias fires him because he is old, something unthinkable in the feudal system where nobody can be fired. The patriarchal (matriarchal in this case) order is falling apart.
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Milana bonita, Milana bonita,
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This review is from: Los santos inocentes/ The Innocent Saints (Leer En Espanol Level 5) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
En esta corta novela Delibes nos da una mirada a la injusticia social en la época de Franco en España. De fácil lectura, esta edición (Leer En Espanol Level 5, Santillana, Universidad de Salamanca) tiene algunos dibujos ilustrativos, preguntas al final para "facilitar la comprensión" y un glosario.
Es el primer libro de Miguel Delibes que leo y espero continuar con otras de sus novelas famosas como El camino (Spanish Edition), El Hereje/ The Heretic (Biblioteca Miguel Delibes Novela) (Spanish Edition) y otros.
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grotesque,
This review is from: Los Santos Inocentes: Level 5 (Leer en Espanol: Level 5) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
A short and passionate novel about an implausibly feudal countryside in contemporary Spain. It's told in run-on, inarticulate sentences, as if in the voices of its characters, the abused lackeys of a hideous Franquista latifundia. If the masters are portrayed as morally grotesque, so in their own way are the 'santos' (the oppressed countryfolk), most of them physically or mentally deformed, filthy, stupefied, 'Tierra Sin Pan'-like. They are at least in touch with the natural world -- but so is the worst of the masters, who is obsessed with hunting. (This "señorito" seems to be in part the author, who was a hunting fanatic too.) Did such people really inhabit Spain in 1981?
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