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His Only Son: read in Spanish (C1)

Read Clarín’s novel Su único hijo in Spanish. Level C1: long ironic sentences, provincial life and opera, with instant word translation.

Su único hijo (Leopoldo Alas «Clarín»)

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Level C1 Reading focus

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Long literary sentences, irony and narrator’s asides, vocabulary of feelings, marriage and the theatre, 19th-century Spanish prose

This article contains the full text of Leopoldo Alas “Clarín”’s novel Su único hijo (1890) about Bonifacio Reyes, a gentle romantic clerk who is ruled by his wife Emma and falls under the spell of an opera singer. Level C1 suits readers who can follow long, winding sentences and ironic asides in Spanish. You will learn the vocabulary of 19th-century provincial life, feelings and the theatre.

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