Marianela

by Benito Pérez Galdós

Overview

Publicada en 1878, Marianela es una novela por la que Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) mostró siempre una especial predilección. El relato -en el que se hallan ya las grandes dicotomías de la obra galdosiana posterior: realidad frente a imaginación, progreso frente a ignorancia, caridad frente a justicia social- ha alcanzado una fama imperecedera gracias a la figura conmovedora de su protagonista, que, enamorada del ciego Pablo Penáguilas, prefiere morir antes de que éste, una vez recuperada la vista, pueda contemplar su fealdad.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788822821430
Publisher:	Benito Pérez Galdós
Publication date:	07/24/2016
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	321 KB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) was a Spanish novelist. Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, he was the youngest of ten sons born to Lieutenant Colonel Don Sebastián Pérez and Doña Dolores Galdós. Educated at San Agustin school, he travelled to Madrid to study Law but failed to complete his studies. In 1865, Pérez Galdós began publishing articles on politics and the arts in La Nación. His literary career began in earnest with his 1868 Spanish translation of Charles Dickens’ Pickwick Papers. Inspired by the leading realist writers of his time, especially Balzac, Pérez Galdós published his first novel, La Fontana de Oro (1870). Over the next several decades, he would write dozens of literary works, totaling 31 fictional novels, 46 historical novels known as the National Episodes, 23 plays, and 20 volumes of shorter fiction and journalism. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times without winning, Pérez Galdós is considered the preeminent author of nineteenth century Spain and the nation’s second greatest novelist after Miguel de Cervantes. Doña Perfecta (1876), one of his finest works, has been adapted for film and television several times.