The House of Ulloa

Pardo Bazán adopted French naturalism and adapted it to Galician reality with a clarity that scandalised her contemporaries. The decaying manor, the cacique, the weak priest: everything is portrayed without concession. The rural brutality she describes is uncomfortable today because it remains recognisable. One of the boldest writers in Spanish literature, and this novel is her most solid work. Essential for understanding naturalism in Spanish and nineteenth-century Galicia.