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Book Review #17

Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson

I knew that I had read this before, but all I could remember was the bleak, arid mountain range that it was set in and the cool, dark castle that the nameless narrator drifts through and that it was about vampires.

It has never been my intention to spoil the storyline of any book, but rather only to provide the shortest and simplest of plot summaries. That being said, here goes nothing. 

A nameless narrator (much like the narrator in Rebecca) is recommended by his doctor to travel to the Spanish mountains for the good of his health. Once he arrives at the bleak, dilapidated home that is to host his recuperation, he meets first the son, later the mother and last of all the daughter, the heartbreakingly beautiful Olalla. The complex prose of the narrator gives us his thoughts on the family, his rambling walks around the homestead, and the meetings he has with them individually. Olalla is half love story, half gothic thriller and is full of interesting medical theories of the day such as tainted family bloodlines, social degeneracy, and the dangers of inbreeding. 

I very much enjoyed my second reading of Olalla. While the plot was somewhat thin, the intrigue, beautiful prose, and haunting love story make it a worthy addition to anyone’s personal library.