Dulce Dueño

Natalia Mascareñas has a character forged by harsh conditions of loneliness and abandonment. Rejected from her birth, she responds in the same way, until an unexpected inheritance from her will allow her to enjoy all that she has been unjustly denied. But, above all, she seeks happiness and rejects whoever imposes any type of chain or rule on her, and her greatest desire is a perfect love, a suitor who, at the height of her ambitions, is capable of sacrificing herself to death. death for the loved one. She knows she is demanding, but she does not cheat; she asks for the perfection that she also demands of herself. This search for absolute love will cause a tragedy... And, in her attempt to repair the damage caused, Natalia realizes that this love is possible, that there is a Sweet Owner that she can join, although for society what happened is a crime or insanity test. Dulce Dueño is the last long novel by Emilia Pardo Bazán, one of the great ladies of our literature. In it she questions the sexual and moral education of the women of her time and, due to the treatment she gives to the theme of love, it is configured as the author's literary testament. And now, thanks to this detailed edition of Marina Mayoral, the reader can taste it as it deserves.