Donja Juan in a man's suit - green pants and a camisole - arrives from his native Valladolid in Madrid. Quintana, her old faithful servant, accompanies her. He asks Madam why she left her father's house and travels in masculine guise. Juana says that on Easter, in April, went for a walk ...

According to the laws of the rogue genre, the novel begins with a description of the hero’s childhood. Pablos's parents - a witch-mother, a thief-father - constantly argue about whose profession is better. “Theft, son, is not a simple craft, but a fine art,” assures the father. But since childhood, the boy has cherished noble dreams, ...

: Two poor sisters hear a story about the dwarves living in the mountain and their wealth. They decide to get rich and at night go to the stream flowing from the mountain, where one of the sisters is captured forever by the dwarves. Village girls were returning from a spring with jugs full of water. On the church porch they saw ...

Diana, Countess de Belfort, late at night entering the hall of her Neapolitan palace, finds there two men cloaked in cloaks, who hastily hide when she appears. Intrigued and angry, Diana orders a butler, but he justifies his ignorance by lying early ...

The cycle consists of four tales: “Spring Sonata”, “Summer Sonata”, “Autumn Sonata” and “Winter Sonata”.He was informed of the author’s “Warning”: “This book is part of the Pleasant Notes, which the Marquis de Bradomin began to write in gray emigration. It was an amazing don Juan. Can ...

Doña Marta and doña Lucia, the daughter of don Gomez, mourn the brother killed by don Felipe. But both girls are secretly in love with don Felipe and in fact are more worried about his fate than they grieve over his dead brother. Martha realizes Lucia’s love for Felipe. To convict my sister of pretense ...

Twenties. On the outskirts of Madrid, which is adjacent to several city cemeteries, live Manuel Alcázar with his widowed sister Ignacia and Salvador, who lives with them, with her young brother Enrique. Manuel works as a typesetter in a printing house, Salvador works in the finished workshop in the morning ...

“Platero and Me” is a series of lyrical sketches of the poet Juan Ramon Jimenez. The hero of the cycle is the gray donkey Platero, who throughout the year is almost the only friend, companion and interlocutor of the author. The very first lines give a portrait of this charming animal: “Platero is small, furry, ...

Suddenly, at the age of forty-nine, Mario Calyado dies of a heart attack. After him there remains a large family - Carmen's wife and five children. Accepting condolences and then, sitting awake at her husband's body, Carmen silently leads an endless conversation with him. From this internal monologue gradually ...

The biography of the torero of Juan Gallardo begins at the moment when the hero is at the zenith of fame. Unaware of defeat, a favorite of the public comes from his native Seville to Madrid for the opening of the spring season. This is not the first performance of Gallardo in the capital, and luck invariably accompanies him. However, how ...

The play is preceded by a prologue delivered by one of the actors before the curtain, which is a laudable word to farce as a genre. The prologue says that the play offered to the audience is a farce, more like a puppet comedy or a comedy of masks: it is artless and involves a children's vision of the world, ...

The action takes place in 1942 and is concentrated around a small cafe in one of the Madrid quarters. In the book of about one hundred and sixty characters, they appear and, barely touching each other, disappear, picked up by the cycle of life in the giant hive of the city. Some figures are outlined more ...

In an appeal to the reader, the author says that when creating his work he was guided by what he liked most in the works of Plutarch, Apuleius, Aesop, Homer or Barkley. Trying to combine such various properties in one text, Gracian begins his novel, consisting of chapters, "crises" ...

The action takes place in the XVII century. in Madrid. Arriving in the city of don Manuel and his servant Cosme are looking for the house of don Juan. Don Manuel and don Juan studied together and fought together, they are old friends. Two ladies appear on the street, whose faces are covered with veils. Someone is chasing them, and they ask don Manuel about ...

The play is based on genuine historical events - an unsuccessful campaign of Portuguese troops in Africa under the command of the Infants Fernando and Enrique, who tried in vain to storm the city of Tangier in 1437. King Feza wants to recapture the city of Ceutu from the Portuguese. Prince Taroudant promises to send him to help ...

The abundant island of Sicily, "the horn of Bacchus, the garden of Pomona" is beautiful, its fertile fields are golden, like the snow of the wool of sheep grazing on the mountain slopes. But there is a terrifying place on it, "a haven for a terrible night," where darkness always reigns. This is the cave of Cyclops Polyphemus, which serves him and the “deaf chamber”, ...

Rui Diaz de Bivar, nicknamed Sid, was slandered by enemies and lost the favor of his lord, King of Castile Alphonse, and was sent to exile. Sid was given nine days to leave Castilian borders, after which the royal squad received the right to kill him. Collecting vassals ...

The action takes place in Spain during the time of King Don Pedro the Just or the Cruel (1350–1369). During the hunt, the King’s brother Infant don Enrique falls from his horse and is unconsciously brought into the house of don Gutierre Alfonso de Solis. They are met by Don Gutierre's wife, Donja Mancia, in which ...

Alvaro Mendiola, a Spanish journalist and film director who has long been living in France in voluntary exile, suffered a severe heart attack, after which the doctors prescribed him peace, and his wife Dolores comes to Spain. Under the canopy of a family home that once belonged to a large family, ...

Spain, beginning of the 20th century The play begins in the groom's house. Mother, having learned that he is going to the vineyard and wants to take a knife, breaks out with curses on the man who invented the knives, and guns and pistols - all that can kill a man. Her husband and eldest son are dead, died in a knife fight with the hated Felix family ...