Álvaro Pombo
Forfatter af La fortuna de Matilda Turpin
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Værker af Álvaro Pombo
19. P.planeta 2006-2008. La fortuna de Matilda Turpin. El mundo. La hermandad de la buena suerte — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Alma mater 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Origins of Desire: Modern Spanish Short Stories (Modern European Short Stories) (1993) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
Amores de mujer : (de los 15 a los 70 ) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Pombo, Álvaro
- Fødselsdato
- 1939-06-23
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Spanje
- Land (til kort)
- Spain
- Fødested
- Santander, Spanje
- Uddannelse
- Complutense University of Madrid
Birkbeck College, the University of London - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Académico de la Real Academia Española
Miembro de la Real Academia Española (2004-)
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 41
- Also by
- 2
- Medlemmer
- 713
- Popularitet
- #35,570
- Vurdering
- 3.0
- Anmeldelser
- 20
- ISBN
- 108
- Sprog
- 9
Pombo — who grew up in Santander himself — follows Virginia's psychological development with an almost Proustian level of detail, as she wavers on the edge of falling in love with Anselmo (who sometimes seems more interested in her cousin Gabriel) and gets involved with a couple of shady spiritualists, the Bárcenas, who are clearly hoping to put her in touch with the deceased Casimiro. We, of course, know that the destruction of the clever and beautiful but sadly useless Virginia is going on in parallel with the Spanish political earthquakes that are about to render her kind of life and the whole society she lives in totally irrelevant, but those are happening out of our sight: the focus remains tightly on Virginia and her quasi-feudal household.
A slow, gentle, poignant but ultimately rather merciless book. Death is death, entropy increases, and consolations are illusory.… (mere)