History and Fiction in Galdos's Narratives - Hardcover

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Benito Perez Galdos (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 Galdos's fiction.
Galdos wrote prolifically in two distinct narrative modes: some twenty major 'contemporary novels' in the realist tradition and a special sort of historical novel he called the episodio nacional. The reign of Isabella II (1843-68) and the revolutionary period which followed until 1875 was a time of exceptional volatility in Spain, and Geoffrey Ribbans's comprehensive study shows how each of Galdos's two narrative modes adopts a particular technique in its treatment of Spanish history and politics. The episodio is tightly bound to historical events and timescale, though it skilfully incorporates its fictional characters into this framework; the novel on the other hand is embedded in historical reality in a constant but less systematic manner. The author also examines Galdos's treatment of historical themes in relation to such significant European writers as Tolstoy and Balzac.
This is a major work of Galdos scholarship and an important contribution to the continuing debates concerning the complex relations between history and fiction.

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