Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) is generally recognized as Spain's greatest novelist since Cervantes. This is a wide-ranging exploration of the role of contemporary Spanish history in Galdós's fiction. The author also examines Galdós's treatment of historical themes in relation to such significant European writers as Tolstoy and Balzac. This is a major work of Galdós scholarship and an important contribution to the continuing debates concerning the complex relationship between history and fiction.

History and Fiction in Galdós's Narratives

Literature & Fiction

Ribbans, Geoffrey

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Perez Galdos: Fortunata y Jacinta (Critical Guides to Spanish & Latin American Texts and Films)

Foyles

Between 1881 and 1897, Benito Pérez Galdós, generally acknowledged as Spain’s greatest nineteenth-century novelist, composed some twenty “contemporary” novels, which Geoffrey Ribbans characterizes as the peak of his achievement. This monumental study traces the evolution of the many strands that make up one of them: the long and complex novel Fortunata y Jacinta. Ribbans examines the various stages of composition, not only the earlier, reconstructed Alpha version but also subsequent revisions in the much corrected handwritten text and in the printer’s galleys. He treats these tentative drafts as part of the process of reaching out toward the coherent definitive text. Ribbans’s analysis of such devices as the ambiguous role of the narrator, the use of free indirect style and direct dialogue, and the construction of distinctive ideolects leads to the heart of his study, the development of Galdós’s characters.

Conflicts and Conciliations: The Evolution of Galdos's Fortuna y Jacinta (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, 14)

Purdue University Press

Niebla y soledad (aspectos unamuno y mac (Brh. Estudios Y Ensayos) (Spanish Edition)

Gredos

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