

He went to such lengths because his creative ambition had been spurred on by the publication of Leopoldo Alas’s La Regenta, another enormous novel, in 1885. The vast bulk of Galdós’s dozens of other novels are not even half as long as this work, and many are not even a quarter in length. Benito Pérez Galdós, an intensely prolific author by any standard, cranked out this enormous work in two year’s time. Here is a real masterpiece of Spanish literature, one of the seemingly endless landmark novels of the nineteenth century. In the Heat: Elche… on Alicante & the Island of…Ģ023: New Year… on In the Heat: Elche & …įortunata y Jacinta by Benito Pérez GaldósĮvil breeds, and the good are annihilated in sterility.

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