Juanita la Larga
Juanita la Larga: a Novel
A NOVEL BY JUAN VALERA
TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH BY ROBERT M. FEDORCHEK
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NOËL VALIS
Copyright Date: 2006
Published by: Catholic University of America Press
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt284x69
Pages: 286
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt284x69
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Juanita la Larga
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Juanita la Larga (1896), the third of Juan Valera's eponymous novels with a female protagonist, unfolds in a small town in nineteenth-century Spain and tells the story of a young girl's romance with a wealthy widower many years her senior.

eISBN: 978-0-8132-1664-5
Subjects: Language & Literature
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-vi)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt284x69.1
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. vii-viii)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt284x69.2
  3. Translator’s Preface
    Translator’s Preface (pp. ix-x)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt284x69.3
  4. Introduction
    Introduction (pp. xi-2)
    Noël Valis
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt284x69.4

    It is rare to find in the last works of old age the spirit of youthful glee, of sly merriment. Yet this is precisely the case with one of Juan Valera’s last novels, Juanita la Larga (1896), now graced with this lovely new translation. Its bucolic setting, gay Andalusian costumbrismo, and happy resolution of two favorite motifs of Valera, those of illegitimacy and the May–December romance, prompted José Montesinos to label the novel “the last classic idyll of Spanish literature.”¹ Generally, readers of Valera’s work have agreed with the eminent Hispanist scholar, with the unfortunate result that less serious...

  5. Author’s Dedication
    Author’s Dedication (pp. 3-5)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt284x69.5
  6. Juanita la Larga
    Juanita la Larga (pp. 7-256)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt284x69.6

    A certain friend of mine, a novice representative, whose name I do not record here because it is not relevant, was positively delighted with his district, and especially with the town where he enjoyed the most support, a town we will call Villalegre. This rich although small hamlet in Andalusia was flourishing at that time, because its fertile vineyards, which had not yet been destroyed by phylloxera, produced exquisite wines that were transported for sale to Jerez,¹ where they became sherry.

    Villalegre was not the administrative center, nor officially the most important town in our friend’s electoral district, but all...

  7. Selected Bibliography
    Selected Bibliography (pp. 257-260)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt284x69.7
  8. Back Matter
    Back Matter (pp. 261-262)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt284x69.8
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