Publisher's Synopsis
Synopsis:
The protagonist of Olalla is a wounded soldier, who travels to Spain to recover. There he meets a mysterious and charming young woman, Olalla, the daughter of his host, and part of a family that hides an abominable secret.
It is the story about an impossible love in a natural setting with strong romantic tones, where two other motifs intersect: a reflection on the soul and the theme of lycanthropy. Olalla's manor house is set in another time, in the history of a closed lineage within which she is only a last moment of lucidity. The girl is jealous of her own eyes, her hair and her hands, and even her own soul. Every part and time of his life already lived and belonging without reference to the closed cycle of the history of his people. Thus, the past overflows his body and took over his senses, as if the dead were reluctant to leave his blood. "We speak of the soul, but the soul is in the lineage," says Olalla, who cannot deliver in love a soul detached from its own conscience.
