Benito Pérez Galdós (May 10, 1843 – January 4, 1920) was a Spanish
realist novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to
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Pérez Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 ''Episodios Nacionales
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'' (''National Episodes''), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings. He remains popular in Spain, and is considered as equal to Dickens
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, Balzac and Tolstoy
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. Some of his works have been translated into English, as he has slowly become popular in the Anglophone world.
While his plays are generally considered to be less successful than his novels, ''Realidad'' (1892) is important in the history of realism in the Spanish theatre.
The Pérez Galdós museum in Las Palmas
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, Gran Canaria
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features a portrait of the writer by Joaquín Sorolla
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.
He came to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1912, but his anticlericalism caused him to be besieged and successfully boycotted by the most conservative sectors of Spanish society, represented in traditionalist Catholicism, who did not recognize his intellectual and literary value.
He had a great fondness for politics, although he did not consider himself a politician. His political beginnings were liberal, later embracing moderate republicanism and, later, socialism under the leadership of Pablo Iglesias Posse
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. In his liberal beginnings he joined the Sagasta Progressive Party and in 1886 he became a deputy for Guayama, Puerto Rico
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, in the courts. At the beginning of the 20th century he joined the Republican Party and in the legislatures of 1907 and 1910 he was a deputy to the Cortes for Madrid for the Conjunción Republicano Socialista; in 1914 he was elected deputy for Las Palmas.
Childhood and first years
Benito Pérez Galdós was born in his family’s home, located in Calle Cano in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
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(currently known as the ''Casa-Museo'' or House-Museum Pérez Galdós) on 10 May 1843. He was the tenth and last son of the Lieutenant Colonel Don Sebastián Pérez and Doña Dolores Galdós. Two days after his birth, he was baptized under the name of Benito María de los Dolores in the church of San Francisco de Asís ( es) in the same city.
He studied at San Agustín school, where he was taught by teachers trained in the principles of the Enlightenment
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. This event awakened in the young Benito a critical spirit, his love for history and his passion for the visual arts and literature. In 1862, after having completed his secondary studies, he travelled to Tenerife
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in order to obtain his certificate in ''Bachillerato'' in Arts. That same year he moved to Madrid
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to start his law degree, but he did not complete his studies.
While studying at university, he frequented the Ateneo of Madrid and other intellectual and artists' gatherings. Through them and his walks around the city, he became acquainted with the life in Madrid and witnessed the political and historical events of the time. These experiences are reflected in his journalistic works and first novels: ''The Golden Fountain Café'' (''La Fontana de oro'') (1870) and ''El audaz'' (1871).
Career as a writer
Benito Pérez Galdós led a comfortable life, living first with two of his sisters and then at the home of his nephew, José Hurtado de Mendoza.
In the city, he got up with the sun and wrote regularly until ten o'clock in the morning in pencil, because to use a pen was a waste of his time. Then he would go for walks in Madrid to eavesdrop on other people's conversations (hence the enormous freshness and variety of his dialogues) and to observe details for his novels. He did not drink, but he smoked leaf cigars incessantly. In the early afternoon he read in Spanish, English or French; he preferred the English, Castilian and Greek classics, particularly Shakespeare
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, Dickens
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, Cervantes
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, Lope de Vega
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and Euripides
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, whom he knew inside out. In his maturity he began to frequent Leo Tolstoy
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. Afterwards he would return to his walks, unless there was a concert, for he adored music and for a long time he was a music critic. He went to bed early and almost never went to the theater. Every trimester he coined a volume of three hundred pages.
From Ramón Pérez de Ayala's point of view, Pérez Galdós was careless in his dress, using somber tones to go unnoticed. In winter it was common to see him wearing a white woolen scarf wrapped around his neck, with one end hanging from his chest and the other behind his back, a half-smoked cigar in his hand and, when seated, his German shepherd dog beside him completed the topical picture. He was in the habit of wearing his hair cropped "al rape" and, apparently, suffered from severe migraines.
By 1865, he was publishing articles in ''La Nación'' on literature, art, music, and politics and it was clear that he was not going to pursue a legal career. His first attempt at a literary career came in 1867, when a didactic historical verse drama was rejected.[Berkowitz] His next venture into the theatre did not take place until 1892.
He had already become enthusiastic about the novels of Charles Dickens
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and, in 1868, his translation of ''Pickwick Papers
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'' introduced his work to the Spanish public. The previous year, he had visited Paris and had begun to read the works of Balzac. In 1870, he was appointed editor of ''La Revista de España'' and began to express his opinions on a wide range of diverse topics such as history, culture, politics, art, music and literature. Between 1867 and 1868, he wrote what would be his first novel, ''La Fontana de Oro'', a historical work set in the period 1820–1823. With the help of money from his sister-in-law, it was published privately in 1870. Critical reaction was slow to gain momentum but it was eventually hailed as the beginning of a new phase in Spanish fiction, and was highly praised for its literary quality as well as for its social and moral purpose.
''National Episodes''
He next developed the outline of a major project, the ''Episodios Nacionales
The ''Episodios Nacionales'' (''National Episodes'') are a collection of forty-six historical novels written by Benito Pérez Galdós between 1872 and 1912. They are divided into five series and they deal with Spanish history from roughly 1805 to ...
'': a series of historical novels outlining the major events in Spanish history from the Battle of Trafalgar
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in 1805 to his own times.
To understand the importance of these novels, the great Max Aub
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said:
"If all the historical material of those years (19th century) were lost, saving the work of Galdós, it would not matter. There is complete, alive, real life of the nation during the hundred years that covered the author's claw. There are, forever, its hundreds and hundreds of historical and imagined characters, as true one as the other (...) Only the greatest in the world, and there are enough fingers to count them, achieved as much. And even more: I would leave him in the novel glory of his time hand in hand with Tolstoy, because, besides giving life to beings forever present, they knew how to bring to light the genius of their homeland through its struggles, glories and misfortunes (...) Galdós has done more for the knowledge of Spain by the Spaniards -by the Spanish people- than all the historians together".
The first episode was called ''Trafalgar'' and appeared in 1873. Successive episodes appeared in fits and starts until the forty-sixth and final novel, ''Cánovas'', appeared in 1912. Every so often, Pérez Galdós seemed to grow tired of this project and stated that he would not write another episode. However, the public bought them avidly, despite the criticism that was levelled at his other works, and they remained the basis of his contemporary reputation and income. He conducted an enormous amount of research in the writing of these stories because official reports, newspaper accounts and histories were often rigidly partisan. To achieve balance and a wider perspective, Pérez Galdós sought out survivors and eyewitnesses to the actual events – such as an old man who had been a cabin boy aboard the ship ''Santísima Trinidad'' at Trafalgar, who became the central figure of that book. Pérez Galdós is often critical of the official versions of the events he describes and often ran into problems with the Catholic Church
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, then a dominant force in Spanish cultural life.
Other novels
His other novels were classified into the groups by José Montesinos:[Montesinos "Galdos"]
# The early works from ''La Fontana de Oro'' up to ''La familia de León Roch'' (1878). The best known of these is probably ''Doña Perfecta
''Doña Perfecta'' (1876) is a 19th-century realist novel by Benito Pérez Galdós from what is called the first of Galdós's three epochs in his novels of social analysis.
Plot summary
The action occurs in 19th century Spain, when a young l ...
'' (1876), which describes the impact made by the arrival of a young radical on a stiflingly clerical town. In '' Marianela'' (1878) a young man regains his eyesight after a life of blindness and rejects his best friend Marianela for her ugliness.
# The Novelas españolas contemporáneas, from ''La desheredada'' (1881) to ''Angel Guerra'' (1891), a loosely related series of 22 novels which are the author’s major claim to literary distinction, including his masterpiece ''Fortunata y Jacinta
''Fortunata y Jacinta'' (Fortunata and Jacinta), was written by Benito Pérez Galdós in 1887 and published in the same year. It is, together with Leopoldo Alas y Ureña's ''La Regenta'' (The Judge's Wife), one of the most popular and representa ...
'' (1886–87). They are bound together by the device of recurring characters, borrowed from Balzac’s ''La Comédie humaine
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''. ''Fortunata y Jacinta
''Fortunata y Jacinta'' (Fortunata and Jacinta), was written by Benito Pérez Galdós in 1887 and published in the same year. It is, together with Leopoldo Alas y Ureña's ''La Regenta'' (The Judge's Wife), one of the most popular and representa ...
'' is almost as long as ''War and Peace
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''. It concerns the fortunes of four characters: a young man-about-town, his wife, his lower-class mistress, and her husband. The character of Fortunata is based on a real girl whom Pérez Galdós first saw in a tenement building in Madrid, drinking a raw egg – which is the way in which the fictional characters come to meet.
# The later novels of psychological investigation, many of which are in dialogue form.
Influences and characteristics
Pérez Galdós was an enthusiastic traveller. His novels display a detailed knowledge of not only Madrid but many other cities, towns and villages of Spain – such as Toledo in ''Angel Guerra''. He visited Great Britain on many occasions, his first trip being in 1883. The descriptions of the various districts and low-life characters that he encountered in Madrid, particularly in ''Fortunata y Jacinta'', are similar to the approaches of Dickens and the French Realist novelists such as Balzac. Pérez Galdós also shows a Balzacian interest in technology and crafts, for example the lengthy descriptions of the ropery in ''La desheredada'' or the detailed accounts of how the heroine of ''La de Bringas'' (1884) embroiders her pictures out of hair.
He was also inspired by Émile Zola
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and Naturalism in which, under the influence of the deterministic philosophy of Hippolyte Taine
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, writers strove to show how their characters were forged by the interaction of heredity, environment and social conditions – race, milieu, et moment. In addition, these writers were keen to suggest that their works were scientific dissections of society. This set of influences is, perhaps, at its clearest in ''Lo prohibido'' (1884–85),[Montesinos intro to Lo prohibido p. 21] which is also noteworthy for being told in the first person by an unreliable narrator who, in addition, dies during the course of the work – it pre-dates similar experiments by André Gide
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such as '' L'immoraliste''.
Another influence came from the philosophy of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
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, which became influential in Spain mainly due to the influence of the famous educationalist Francisco Giner de los Ríos
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. The clearest example of this influence on Galdós is in his novel ''El Amigo Manso'' (1882). However, it is also clear that the mystical tendencies of ''krausismo'' led to his interest in insanity and the strange wisdom that can sometimes be shown by those people who appear to be mad. This becomes a theme of great importance in the works of Pérez Galdós from ''Fortunata y Jacinta'' onwards, for example in Miau
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(1888) and his final novel ''La razón de la sinrazón''.
All through his literary career, Pérez Galdós incurred the wrath of the Catholic press. He attacked what he saw as abuses of entrenched and dogmatic religious power rather than religious faith or Christianity per se. In fact, the need for faith is a very important feature in many of his novels and there are many sympathetic portraits of priests and nuns.
Return to the theatre
His first mature play was ''Realidad'', an adaptation of his novel of the same name, which had been written in dialogue. Pérez Galdós was attracted to the idea of making direct contact with his public and seeing and hearing their reactions. Rehearsals began in February 1892. The theatre was packed on the opening night and received the play enthusiastically. Pérez Galdós took about 15 curtain calls. However, although the audience reception was good, the play did not receive universal critical acclaim because of its realistic dialogue which did not accord with the general theatrical language of the time, the setting of a scene in the boudoir of a courtesan, and the un-Spanish attitude towards a wife’s adultery. The Catholic press did not attend the performance but this did not prevent them from denouncing the author as a perverse and wicked influence. The play ran for twenty nights.
In 1901, his play ''Electra'' caused a storm of outrage and floods of equally hyperbolic enthusiasm. As in many of his works, Pérez Galdós targeted clericalism and the inhuman fanaticism and superstition that can accompany it. The performance was interrupted by audience reaction and the author had to take many curtain calls. After the third night, the conservative and clerical parties organised a demonstration outside the theatre. The police moved in and arrested two members of a workers’ organization who had reacted against the demonstration. Several people were wounded as a result of the clash and, the next day, the newspapers were divided between liberal support for the play and Catholic/conservative condemnation. Over one hundred performances were given in Madrid alone and the play was also performed in the provinces. In 1934, 33 years later, a revival in Madrid produced much the same degree of uproar and outrage.
Later life and political involvement
Despite his attacks on the forces of conservatism, Pérez Galdós had shown only a weak interest in being directly involved in politics. In 1886 the Prime Minister Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
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appointed him as the (absent) deputy for the town and district of Guayama
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, Puerto Rico
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at the Madrid parliament; he never visited the place, but had a representative inform him of the status of the area and felt a duty to represent its inhabitants appropriately. This appointment lasted for five years and mainly seems to have given him the chance to observe the conduct of politics at first hand, which informs scenes in some of his novels.
As part of the republican political forces, Madrid elected Pérez Galdós as a representative in the Cortes of 1907.51 In 1909, together with Pablo Iglesias, he presided over the republican-socialist coalition, although Pérez Galdós, who "did not feel himself a politician", soon withdrew from the struggles "for the minutes and the farce" and turned his already diminished energies to the novel and the theater.
At the same time, the skillful political instinct of the Count of Romanones, plotted meetings between the young King Alfonso XIII
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and the popular writer that placed him in an ambiguous context. However, in 1914, Pérez Galdós, ill and blind, presented and won his candidacy as republican deputy for The Gran Canarian palms. This coincided with the promotion, in March 1914, of a National Board tributo to Pérez Galdós, made up of personalities of the stature and stature of Eduardo Dato
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(head of the Government), Captain General Miguel Primo de Rivera
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, the banker Gustavo Bauer (Rothschild's representative in Spain), Melquiades Álvarez, head of the reformists, or the Duke of Alba
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, as well as established writers such as Jacinto Benavente, Mariano de Cavia and José de Echegaray. Politicians such as Antonio Maura or Lerroux were not included in the board, and for antagonistic reasons: the Church and the socialists. In 1918, he joined in a protest with Miguel de Unamuno
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and Mariano de Cavia against the encroaching censorship and authoritarianism coming from the putatively constitutional monarch. He had been blind since 1912, was in financial difficulties and increasingly troubled by illness.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature
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for five years, 1912–16, which would both have increased his prestige outside Spain and improved his financial status, but neither was successful. Among those who nominated Pérez Galdós was the 1904 winner José Echegaray
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. A national subscription scheme was set up to raise money to help Pérez Galdós, to which the King and his Prime Minister Romanones
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were the first to subscribe. The activities of the Catholic press, which sneered at the writer as a blind beggar, along with the outbreak of World War I
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, led to the scheme being closed in 1916 with the money raised being less than half what would be required to clear his debts and set up a pension. In that same year, however, the Ministry of Public Instruction appointed him to take charge of the arrangements for the Cervantes tercentenary, for a stipend of 1000 pesetas per month. Although the event never took place, the stipend continued for the rest of Pérez Galdós’s life.
In the literary aspect, it can be noted that his admiration for the work of Leon Tolstoy is reflected in a certain spiritualism in his last writings and, in the same Russian line, he could not conceal a certain pessimism for the destiny of Spain, as can be perceived in the pages of one of his last National Episodes, Cánovas (1912), to which this paragraph belongs:
In 1897, Pérez Galdós had been elected to the Real Academia Española
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(Royal Spanish Academy). After becoming blind he continued to dictate his books for the rest of his life. Pérez Galdós died at the age of 76. Shortly before his death, a statue in his honour was unveiled in the Parque del Buen Retiro
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, the most popular park in Madrid, financed solely by public donations.And a ceremony was held in which Galdos participated. The writer, now blind, explored her face with his hands and after recognizing her, he began to cry and said to the sculptor, a great friend of his, "Magnificent, my friend Macho, and how she looks like me!
Works
Early Novels
* ''La Fontana de Oro'' (1870)
* ''La Sombra'' (1871)
* ''El Audaz'' (1871)
* ''Doña Perfecta
''Doña Perfecta'' (1876) is a 19th-century realist novel by Benito Pérez Galdós from what is called the first of Galdós's three epochs in his novels of social analysis.
Plot summary
The action occurs in 19th century Spain, when a young l ...
'' (1876)
* ''Gloria'' (1877)
* ''Marianela'' (1878)
* ''La Familia de León Roch'' (1878)
Novelas Españolas Contemporáneas
* ''La Desheredada'' (1881)
* ''El Amigo Manso'' (1882)
* ''El Doctor Centeno'' (1883)
* ''Tormento'' (1884)
* ''La de Bringas'' (1884)
* ''Lo Prohibido'' (1884–85)
* ''Fortunata y Jacinta
''Fortunata y Jacinta'' (Fortunata and Jacinta), was written by Benito Pérez Galdós in 1887 and published in the same year. It is, together with Leopoldo Alas y Ureña's ''La Regenta'' (The Judge's Wife), one of the most popular and representa ...
'' (1886–87)
* ''Celín, Tropiquillos y Theros'' (1887)
* ''Miau
''Miau'' is a realistic novel by Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós, released in 1888. It tells a story about a lower-middle class family of Madrid in the 19th century. The main character is Ramón Villaamil, an ex-employee from the Ministry ...
'' (1888)
* ''La Incógnita'' (1889)
* ''Torquemada en la Hoguera'' (1889)
* ''Realidad'' (1889)
* ''Ángel Guerra'' (1891)
Later Novels
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'' (1892)
* ''Torquemada en la Cruz'' (1893)
* ''La Loca de la Casa'' (1893)
* ''Torquemada en el Purgatorio'' (1894)
* ''Torquemada y San Pedro'' (1895)
* ''Nazarín'' (1895)
* ''Halma'' (1895)
* ''Misericordia'' (1897)
* ''El Abuelo'' (1897)
* ''Casandra'' (1905)
* ''El Caballero Encantado'' (1909)
* ''La Razón de la Sinrazón'' (1915)
Episodios Nacionales
* Episodios Nacionales
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Plays
* ''Quien Mal Hace, Bien no Espere'' (1861, lost)
* ''La Expulsión de los Moriscos'' (1865, lost)
* ''Un Joven de Provecho'' (1867?, published in 1936)
* ''Realidad'' (1892)
* ''La Loca de la Casa'' (1893)
* ''Gerona'' (1893)
* ''La de San Quintín'' (1894)
* ''Los Condenados'' (1895)
* ''Voluntad'' (1896)
* ''Doña Perfecta'' (1896)
* ''La Fiera'' (1897)
* ''Electra'' (1901)
* ''Alma y Vida'' (1902)
* ''Mariucha'' (1903)
* ''El Abuelo'' (1904)
* ''Barbara'' (1905)
* ''Amor y Ciencia'' (1905)
* ''Pedro Minio'' (1908)
* ''Zaragoza'' (1908)
* ''Casandra'' (1910)
* ''Celia en los Infiernos'' (1913)
* ''Alceste'' (1914)
* ''Sor Simona'' (1915)
* ''El Tacaño Salomón'' (1916)
* ''Santa Juana de Castilla'' (1918)
* ''Antón Caballero'' (1922, unfinished)
Short stories
* ''Una industria que vive de la muerte. Episodio musical del cólera'' (1865)
* ''Necrología de un proto-tipo'' (1866)
* ''La conjuración de las palabras. Cuento alegórico'' (1868)
* ''El artículo de fondo'' (1871)
* ''La mujer del filósofo'' (1871)
* ''La novela en el tranvía'' (1871)
* ''Un tribunal literario'' (1872)
* ''Aquél'' (1872)
* ''La pluma en el viento o el viaje de la pluma'' (1873)
* ''En un jardín'' (1876)
* ''La mula y el buey'' (1876)
* ''El verano'' (1876)
* ''La princesa y el granuja'' (1877)
* ''El mes de junio'' (1878)
* ''Theros'' (1883)
* ''La tienda-asilo'' (1886)
* ''Celín'' (1889)
* ''Tropiquillos'' (1893)
* ''El Pórtico de la Gloria'' (1896)
* ''Rompecabezas'' (1897)
* ''Rura'' (1901)
* ''Entre copas'' (1902)
* ''La república de las letras'' (1905)
Miscellaneous
* ''Crónicas de Portugal'' (1890)
* ''Discurso de Ingreso en la Real Academia Española'' (1897)
* ''Memoranda, Artículos y Cuentos'' (1906)
* ''Política Española I'' (1923)
* ''Política Española II'' (1923)
* ''Arte y Crítica'' (1923)
* ''Fisonomías Sociales'' (1923)
* ''Nuestro Teatro'' (1923)
* ''Cronicón 1883 a 1886'' (1924)
* ''Toledo. Su historia y su Leyenda'' (1927)
* ''Viajes y Fantasías'' (1929)
* ''Memorias'' (1930)
Works translated into English
In the United Kingdom
Novels
* ''Gloria'' (1879. London: Remington and Co. Translated by Natham Wetherell; 1883. Trübner & Co. Translated by Clara Bell)
* ''Doña Perfecta, a tale of Modern Spain'' (1886. London: Samuel Tinsley, Translated by D. P. W.)
* ''Marianela'' (1893. London: Digby, Long. Translated by Mary Wharton)
* ''Doña Perfecta'' (1894. London: The Fisher Unwin. Translated by Mary Wharton; 1999. London: Widenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. Translated by A. K. Tulloch; 2009. Oxford: Oxbow Books. Translated by Graham Whittaker)
* ''The Spendthrifts'' 'La de Bringas''(1951. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The Illustrated Novel Library. Translated by Gamel Woolsey; 1953. London: Reader's Union. Translated by Gamel Woolsey)
* ''Torment'' 'Tormento''(1952. London: Widenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. Translated by J. M. Cohen)
* ''Miau'' (1963. London: Methuen. Translated by J. M. Cohen)
* ''Fortunata and Jacinta: Two Stories of Married Women'' 'Fortunata y Jacinta''(1973. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. Translated by Lester Clarck)
* ''La desheredada'' (1976. London: The Folio Society. Translated by Lester Clarck)
* ''Torquemada on the Fire'' 'Torquemada en la hoguera''(1985. Glasgow: University of Glasglow. Translated by Nicholas Round)
* ''Fortunata and Jacinta'' 'Fortunata y Jacinta''(1987. London: Viking. Translated by Agnes Moncy Gullón; 1992. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Translated by Harriet S. Turner; 1998. London: Penguin Books. Translated by Agnes Moncy Gullón)
* ''Torquemada'' (1988. London: André Deutsch. Translated by Frances M. López-Morillas)
* ''Nazarín'' (1993. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Translated by Jo Labanyi)
* ''Misericordia'' (1995. Santry: Dedalus. Translated by Charles de Salis; 2007. Madrid: ''Isidora. Revista de Estudios Galdosianos'' no. 3, pgs. 6-293. Translated by Robert H. Russell; 2013. Madrid: Ediciones. Translated by Robert H. Russell)
* ''That Bringas Woman: The Bringas Family'' 'La de Bringas''(1996. London: Phoenix. Translated by Catherine Jagoe)
* ''Tristana'' (1996. London: Bristol Classical Press; 1998. London: Duckworth Publishers; 1998. London: Bloomsbury Publishing; 2016. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Translated by Pablo Valdivia)
* ''Inferno'' 'Tormento''(1998. London: Phoenix House (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Translated by Abigail Lee Six)
* ''Halma'' (2015. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Translated by Robert S. Rudder, Ignacio López-Calvo)
Episodios Nacionales
* ''Trafalgar'' (1905/1921/1951. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Translated by Frederick Alexander Kirkpatrick)
Plays
* ''Meow. A Tragicomedy'' 'Miau''(2014. Liverpool: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics. Translated by Ruth Katz Crispin)
Short stories
* ''The Conspiracy of Words'' 'La conjuración de las palabras''( 2007. Madrid: ''Isidora. Revista de Estudios Galdosianos'' no. 4, pgs. 165-170. Translated by Robert H. Russell)
In the United States
Novels
* ''Gloria'' (1882. New York: William S. Gottsberger Publisher. Translated by Clara Bell; 2012. Miami: Editorial Rarebooksclub. Translated by N. Wetherell)
* ''Doña Perfecta'' (1884. New York: Gottsberger. Translated by Clara Bell; 1883. New York: George Munro, Publisher. Translated by D. P. W.; 1885. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Translated by Mary jane Serrano; 1940 New York: P. F. Collier & Son; 1960. New York: Barron's Educational Series, Inc. Translated by Harriet de Onís; 2013. Miami: Editorial Rarebooksclub. Translated by D. P. W)
* ''Marianela'' (1883. New York: William S. Gottsberger Publisher. Translated by Clara Bell; 2013. Miami: Editorial Rarebooksclub; 2015. Scholar's Choice Publisher. Translated by Mary Wharton)
* ''La familia de León Roch'' (1888. New York: William S. Gottsberger Publisher. Translated by Clara Bell)
* ''Marianela: A Story of Spanish Love'' 'Marianela''(1892. Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company. Translated by Hellen W. Lester)
* ''The Spendthrifts'' 'La de Bringas''(1952. Mew York: Farrar Straus & Young. The Illustrated Novel Library. Translated by Gamel Woolsley; 2013. Miami: Editorial Rarebooksclub)
* ''Tristana'' (1961. Peterborough, NH: R. R. Smith. Translated by R. Selden-Rose. 2014. Review Books Classics. New York: ReadHowYouWant. Translated by Margarte Jull Costa)
* ''Compassion'' 'Misericordia''(1962. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. Translated by Toby Talbot)
* ''El amigo Manso'' (1963. New York: Oxford University Press)
* ''Miau'' (1970. New York: Oxford University Press. Translated by Eduard R. Mulvihill, Roberto G. Sánchez)
* ''León Roch: a Romance'' 'La familia de León Roch''(1974. New York: Howard Ferting. Translated by Clara Bell)
* ''The Shadow'' 'La sombra''(1980. Ohio: Ohio University Press. Translated by Karen O. Austin)
* ''Fortunata and Jacinta: Two Stories of Married Women'' 'Fortunata y Jacinta''(1986. Georgia: University of Georgia Press. Translated by Agnes Moncy Gullón)
* ''Torquemada'' novels: ''Torquemada at the Stake - Torquemada on the Cross - Torquemada in Purgatory - Torquemada and Saint Peter'' 'Torquemada en la hoguera. Torquemada en la Cruz. Torquemada en el Purgatorio. Torquemada y San Pedro''(1986. New York: Columbia University Press. Translated by Frances M. López-Morillas)
* ''The Golden Fountain Café: a Historic Novel of the XIXth Century'' 'La Fontana de Oro''(1989. Pittsburgh, PA: Latin American Literary Review Press. Translated by Walten Rubin ''et al.'')
* ''Our Friend Manso'' 'El amigo Manso''(1987. New York: Columbia University Press. Translated by Robert Russell)
* Ángel Guerra (1990. Lewiston, New York
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* ''The Unknown'' 'La incógnita''1991. Lewiston, New York
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* ''Reality'' 'Realidad''(1992. Lewiston, New York
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* ''The Cape of Don Francisco Torquemada: 1.Torquemada in the Bonfire. 2. Torquemada on the Cross. 3. Torquemada in Purgatory. 4. Torquemada and Saint Peter'' 'Torquemada en la hoguera. Torquemada en la Cruz. Torquemada en el Purgatorio. Torquemada y San Pedro''(1996. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press. Translated by Robert G. Trimble)
* ''Nazarín'' (1997. Pittsburgh, PA: Latin American Literary Review Press. Translated by Robert S. Ruder, Gloria Chacón de Arjona)
* ''Torquemada at the Stake'' 'Torquemada en la hoguera''(2004. Mineola, New York: Dover. Translated by Stanley Appel Baum)
* ''Dona Perfecta'' 'Doña Perfecta''(2009. ReadHowYouWant Publisher. Easy Read Edition; 2014. United States: Independent Publishin-Platform)
* ''Halma'' (2010. Volumne 69. Charleston: Nabu Press)
* ''Misericordia'' (2017. Miami: Editorial Rarebooksclub)
* ''Leon Roch: a Romance.'' Volumne 1. 'La familia de León Roch''(2018. Franklin Classics Trade Press)
Compilations
* ''Benito Pérez Galdós. Best Novels'' (2017. Miami: Editorial Rarebooksclub. Translated by Mary J. Serrano)
Episodios Nacionales
* ''Trafalgar. A Tale'' (1884. New York: William S. Gottsberger Publisher. Translated by Clara Bell; 1993. New York: H. Fertig)
* ''The Court of Charles IV. A Romance of the Escorial'' 'La Corte de Carlos IV''(1886. New York: William S. Gottsberger Publisher. Translated by Clara Bell; 1993. New York: H. Fertig)
* ''La batalla de los Arapiles'' (1985. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. Translated by R. Ogden)
* ''Saragossa. A History of Spanish Valor'' 'Zaragoza''(1899. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Translted by Minna Caroline Smith)
* ''The Campaign of the Maestrazgo'' 'La campaña del Maestrazgo''(1990. Wakefield. N. H.: Longwood Academic. Translated by Lila Wells Guzmán)
* ''Gerona'' (1993. Lewiston, New York
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* ''A Royalist Volunteer'' 'Un voluntario realista''(Lewiston, New York
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* ''Juan Martin el Empecinado'' (2009. Charleston: Nabu Press)
* ''El Grande Oriente'' (2009. Charleston: Nabu Press)
* ''Aita Tettuaen'' (2009. Miami: Editorial Rarebooksclub)
* ''The Court of Charles IV'' 'La Corte de Carlos IV''(2009. Miami: Editorial Rarebooksclub. Translated by Clara Bell)
* ''Saragossa'' 'Zaragoza''(2015. Miami: Editorial Rarebooksclub. Translated by Minna Smith)
* ''Trafalgar'' (2016. Miami: Editorial Rarebooksclub)
Plays
* ''The Grandfather. Drama in five acts'' 'El abuelo''(1910. Boston: Poet Lore XXXI, no. 3. Translated by Elizabeth Wallace; 2017. Miami: Editorial Rarebooksclub)
* ''Electra'' (1911. Chicago: ''The Drama'', no. 2, pgs. 12-138; 1919. Boston: R. G. Badger in ''Contemporary Spanish Dramatists''. Translated by Charles Alfred Turrell)
* ''The Duchess of San Quintín, Daniela'' 'La de San Quintín''(1928. New York-London: D. Appleton and Company. Translated by Eleanor Bontecou, P. M. Hayden, J. G. Underhill)
* ''Marianela'' (2014. Texas: Stone Cottage Theater. Adapted by Mark-Brian Sonna)
* ''The Duchess of San Quintín:'' a play in three acts 'La de San Quintín''(2016. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta Cop. Translated by Robert M. Fedorcheck)
Works by Pérez Galdós, online
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Film adaptations
His novels have yielded many cinematic adaptations: ''Beauty in Chains'' (''Doña Perfecta'') was directed by Elsie Jane Wilson
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in 1918; ''Viridiana
''Viridiana'' () is a 1961 Spanish-Mexican film directed by Luis Buñuel and produced by Gustavo Alatriste. It is loosely based on the 1895 novel ''Halma'' by Benito Pérez Galdós.
The film was the co-winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Canne ...
'' (1961), by Luis Buñuel
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, is based upon ''Halma''; Buñuel also adapted ''Nazarín
''Nazarín'' (, ) is a 1959 Mexican satirical drama film directed by Luis Buñuel and co-written between Buñuel and Julio Alejandro, adapted from the eponymous novel of Benito Pérez Galdós.
The film received the international prize at the 19 ...
'' (1959) and ''Tristana Tristana may refer to:
* ''Tristana'' (novel), a novel published in 1892 by Benito Pérez Galdós
** ''Tristana'' (film), a 1970 Spanish film directed by Luis Buñuel based on the eponymous novel
* ''Tristana'' (song), a 1987 song recorded by the ...
'' (1970); ''La Duda
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Cast
* Silvia Navarro ... Victoria
* Víctor González Reynoso ... Julian
* Sergio Bustamante ... Adolfo
* Julieta Egurrola ... Teresa
* Omar Germenos .. ...
'' was filmed in 1972 by Rafael Gil
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His film ''La guerra de Dios'' (1953) won the Bronze Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1953 and also won best film and best director at the San Sebastián ...
; '' El Abuelo'' (1998) (''The Grandfather''), by José Luis Garci
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, was internationally released a year later; it previously had been adapted as the Argentine film, '' El Abuelo'' (1954). In 2018, Sri Lankan director, Bennett Rathnayke directed the film '' Nela''.
Works about Pérez Galdós
* Alfieri, J.J. (1968). "Galdós Revaluated (sic)" ''Books Abroad,'' Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 225–226.
* Bishop, William Henry (1917)
"Benito Pérez Galdós."
In: ''The Warner Library.'' New York: Knickerbocker Press, pp. 6153–6163.
* Chamberlin, Vernon A. (1964). "Galdós' Use of Yellow in Character Delineation," ''PMLA,'' Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 158–163.
* Ellis, Havelock (1906)
"The Spirit of Present Day Spain,"
''The Atlantic Monthly,'' Vol. 98, pp. 757–765.
* Geddes Jr., James (1910)
"Introduction."
In: ''Marianela.'' Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., pp. iii–xvi.
* Glascock, C.C. (1923). "Spánish Novelist: Benito Perez Galdos," ''Texas Review,'' Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 158–177.
* Gómez Martínez, José Luis (1983)
"Galdós y el Krausismo español"
''Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica,'' Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 55–79.
* Huntington, Archer M. (1897)
"Perez Galdós in the Spanish Academy,"
''The Bookman,'' Vol. V, pp. 220–222.
* Karimi, Kian-Harald (2007): Jenseits von altem Gott und ‘Neuem Menschen’. Präsenz und Entzug des Göttlichen im Diskurs der spanischen Restaurationsepoche. Frankf./M.: Vervuert.
* Keniston, Hayward (1920)
"Galdós, Interpreter of Life,"
''Hispania,'' Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 203–206.
* Madariaga, Salvador de (1920). "The Genius of Spain," ''Contemporary Review,'' Vol. 117, pp. 508–516.
* Miller, W. (1901)
"The Novels of Pérez Galdós,"
''The Gentleman's Magazine,'' Vol. 291, pp. 217–228.
* Pattison, Walter T. (1954). ''Benito Pérez Galdós and the Creative Process.'' Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
* Ridao Carlini, Inma (2018): Rich and Poor in Nineteenth-Century Spain: A Critique of Liberal Society in the Later Novels of Benito Pérez Galdós. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer.
* Waldeck, R.W. (1904). "Benito Pérez Galdós, Novelist, Dramatist and Reformer" ''The Critic,'' Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 447–449.
* Warshaw, J. (1929). "Galdós's Apprenticeship in the Drama," ''Modern Language Notes,'' Vol. 44, No. 7, pp. 459–463.
Pérez Galdós' House-Museum
The Pérez Galdós' House-Museum (''Casa-Museo Pérez Galdós'' in Spanish) is located in the Triana neighbourhood, in the centre of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
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. The house (the place where Galdós was born) was acquired and created in 1954 by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria and inaugurated on 9 July 1960 by María Pérez Galdós Cobián, the writer's daughter.
In the House-Museum visitors can see the house where the writer grew up, as well as a display of documents (letters, manuscripts...), furniture, musical instruments, paintings and photos that belonged to both the writer and his family.
The aim of the House-Museum is the conservation, study and dissemination of the legacy of Benito Pérez Galdós. For this matter, the management of the House-Museum has organised eleven international congresses, countless conferences and exhibitions, school visits, and has developed a publishing line with several collections of its own.
The House-Museum also has its own library with numerous works by Galdós in different languages, as well as the author's complete collection in ePub format (only in Spanish) and a virtual tour, among others.
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