El origen del pensamiento

Armando Palacio Valdes

The Origin of Thought by Armando Palacio Valdés is a satirical novel set in Madrid. Young sculptor Mario de la Costa courts Carlota and enters the orbit of her family, especially her father, Don Pantaleón Sánchez, an amateur scientist whose materialist theories and eccentric experiments bring art, love, ambition, and scientific obsession into comic conflict.