History and fiction in Galdós's narratives

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    • Ribbans, Geoffrey

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History and fiction in Galdós's narratives

Geoffrey Ribbans

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-294) and index

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内容説明

Benito Perez Galdos is generally recognized as Spain's greatest novelist since Cervantes. This study is a wide-ranging exploration of the role of contemporary Spanish history in Galdos' fiction. Galdos wrote prolifically in two distinct narrative modes - some 20 major "contemporary novels" in the realist tradition, and a special sort of historical novel he called the "episodio nacional". The reign of Isabella II (1843-1868) and the revolutionary period which followed until 1875 was a time of exceptional volatility in Spain, and Ribbans' study shows how each of Galdos' two narrative modes adopts a particular technique in their 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' treatment of historical themes in relation to such significant European writers as Tolstoy and Balzac.

目次

  • The novel and history
  • Galdos' contemporary novels and "episodios nacionales"
  • the reign of Isabella II - hopes and disappointments 1843-1858
  • the reign of Isabella II - military rule and revolution 1858-1868
  • Prim and the Glorious Revolution of 1868
  • political experimentation 1868-1874
  • the Restoration and the established order
  • the idealistic reconstruction of history. Appendices: list of Galdos' published works
  • principal historical events 1805-1912
  • family tree of the Bourbon Dynasty in Spain.

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