Summary
Miguel de Unamuno: Aunt Tula
Two sisters Rosa and Gertruda (Tula) grew up without a father and a mother, with their uncle Don Primitivo, a priest, supporting them. The girls inherited their father's parents, who do not allow them to live a luxurious life. The sisters are completely different: Gertrude is serious, hard-working, responsible, suspicious, smart, and the dark-skinned Rosa is rash, foolish and immature, with a loving nature, she aroused the admiration and lust of men. When Ramiro appears in the village, Rosa falls in love with him and the wedding is soon arranged. In marriage, Rosa gave birth to three children, but died soon after the third birth. Tula, Tula's aunt, takes care of the children until Manuela, a maid, comes to the house and will disrupt the relationship between Ramir and Tula.... This is how this novel with a dense, compact plot that Unamuno wrote in the twenties of the last century, a novel about childbirth, death and anxiety, with tense and passionate dialogues, similar to the novels of Leopold Alas or Benito Perez Galdos, masters of dialogical novels and novel.
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