Abstract
La Regenta is ostensibly a novel about adultery. The nature and meaning of that adultery are likely to elude us, however, if we regard it as an act simply consequent upon sexual desire on the part of those concerned. Others have raised the possibility that it is brought about by other factors, such as boredom, or the emulation of literary models. Indeed, critical work on the novel is notable for its unwillingness to privilege simple sexual desire in any of the parties concerned as the prime mover towards the commission of adultery.1 What I would like to argue here is that adultery in La Regenta occurs as an indicator or surface manifestation of other forces at play in the novel concerning control, gender and sexuality, and that a way of understanding the commission of adultery in the novel is contained within the complex net of images and allusions to food, appetite and feeding.
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