Dark Vales

The protagonist, Father Llatzer, a priest banished for doctrinal heresy to an isolated, backward mountain parish, struggles to achieve personal redemption by bringing salvation to his primitive, taciturn, rural flock. Their mute atavism is disturbed only by the local whore, Footloose, embodying all the forces against which the priest's reforming mission is directed. Ambiguity surrounds the denouement of that conflict.

Dark Vales is as as compelling today as when it was first written.

About the author

Raimon Casellas i Dou (b. Barcelona 1855) died, almost certainly by suicide, in 1910. The motives for his premature death can be read between the lines of his 1901 novel Dark Vales (Els sots ferestecs). He published two collections of short stories (Les multituds: 1906; Llibre d'hista²ries: 1909). Casellas was an art historian, critic and a leading figure in Catalan Modernisme, which aspired to set Catalan culture on the same cosmopolitan footing as the advanced national cultures of contemporary Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Raimon Casellas, Ramon Casellas
• Assisted by: Eva Bosch (Editor), Alan Yates (Translation)
• Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2013
• EAN: 9781909232617
• ISBN: 978-1-909232-61-7
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Dedalus European Classics; Dedalus European Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature