Doña Luz

Juan Valera (1824-1905), one of nineteenth-century Spain's most respected authors, wrote novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and literary criticism. The unifying thread of his work is "art for art's sake," that is, beauty as the end and purpose of inspiration and creativity. Two examples in long works of this aesthetic credo are his novels Pepita Jim nez (1874) and the novel translated here, Do a Luz (1879); the former is about a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611481775
• ISBN13: 9781611481778
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 177 Pages