Nacha Regules: Novela

by Manuel Gálvez

"Nacha Regules: Novela" by Manuel Gálvez is a social novel published in 1919. Set in Buenos Aires during the Centennial era, it tells the story of Ignacia "Nacha" Regules, a woman forced into prostitution by poverty and social pressure, and Fernando Monsalvat, a guilt-ridden lawyer who sees her salvation as a path to social reform. Their platonic romance unfolds against stark class divisions, exposing the hypocrisy of high society and the brutal realities faced by impoverished women in early twentieth-century Argentina.