Clarin's Monument in San Francisco Park, OviedoLeopoldo García-Alas y Ureña (Clarín), author of La Regenta, was actually born in Zamora but being of Asturian descent, he came to live in Oviedo - nicknamed Vetusta in La Regenta- at the age of 13, and he considered the city his hometown.
During his all too short life (25 April 1852 - 13 June 1901), this prolific writer -currently acclaimed as one of the most formidable Spanish writers of all times - led a sort of double-life, in the words of one of his disciples, renown Spanish writer Ramón Pérez de Ayala, he had "a double personality - that of the professor and that of the writer ... Leopoldo Alas was the university professor, Clarin the writer. The personality of the latter cannot be really understood if the personality of the former is unknown, for Clarin was, first and foremost, Leopoldo Alas, that is, the teacher".
Our Spanish courses will help you discover more about the works and deeds of this Asturian writer, who, when confronted with the fact of his birth in Zamora ironically declared: "Me nacieron en Zamora".
In Spanish, this statement would normally be in active voice: "Nací en Zamora", but Clarín used a passive construction to signal the accidental nature of his birth beyond the borders of his beloved "tierrina" (as Asturians call their "little homeland").
What an interesting data. I would love to read more about his work as a teacher. I am sure that he was adored by his students. Is there a Catedra de Clarin at the university of Oviedo?
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