Well, I'm glad to have that over with. In my senior year of college I read it (or attempted to read it) in Spanish for one of my upper-division classes. I couldn't really concentrate on the subtle details of the story over my constant struggle just to read with any degree of fluency.Turns out I ...
Galdos is the Spanish Dickens. He's completely underrated andif you like Victorian literature you are certain to like thistoo. Galdós, Benito Pérez, Fortunata and Jacinta. Two Stories of Married Women. Translated with an Introductionby Anges Moncy Gullón. The University of Georgia Press. Athen...
This novel of a woman struggling to free herself from her confining domestic status consists mainly of the protagonist's introspections. Galdos examines the theme of liberty and seems to conclude, perhaps with some disillusionment at the results of the Revolution of 1868, that the individual is r...