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Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist.
Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist.

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Benito Pérez Galdós

Spanish realist novelist (1843–1920)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pérez and the second or maternal family name is Galdós.

Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós (Spanish pronunciation:[beˈnitoˈpeɾeθɣalˈdos]; 10 May 1843 – 4 January 1920) was a Spanish realist novelist. He was a leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Pérez Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 major novels, 46 historical novels in five series, 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings.^[1] He remains popular in Spain, and is considered equal to Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy.^[1] He is less well known in Anglophone countries, but some of his works have now been translated into English. His play Realidad (1892) is important in the history of realism in the Spanish theatre. The Pérez Galdós museum in Las Palmas, Gran Canari

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Life & works of Benito Perez Galdos

Benito Pérez Galdós is considered, after Cervantes, the best author of all Spanish literature, and he's recognized as the best novel writer of the 19th century. Some of his better known works are "Fortunata y Jacinta" (1886), "Episodios Nacionales", "Miau" (1888) or "Marianela" (1878).

Benito Pérez Galdós - Life and Works

Galdós was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1843. He was the tenth son of a Colonel, who often told him stories about the War of Spanish Independence and instilled in him the love for historical narrative. In 1852 Galdós was accepted in the School of San Agustín, which applied quite modern pedagogic techniques for the time. In 1862 he graduates in Arts from the Laguna Institute in Tenerife, and he began to collaborate in the local newspapers with satiric poems, essays and a few stories. He'd also developed an interest in drawing and painting.

Galdós arrived in Madrid when he was 19, on September of 1862, and enrolled

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Galdos: The Novelist as Historian

A few years ago, during an informal chat I enjoyed with Don Cipriano Rivas Cherif, one of Garcia Lorca’s closest friends and a noted writer himself, the conversation turned towards nineteenth-century Spain, that labyrinth of civil wars, pronunciamientos, and bewildering changes of government.

‘There is only one way to obtain a true picture of this complex period,’ he assured me, ‘and that is to read the Episodios Nacionales of Galdos in their entirety. Not just as history, but as a living experience illuminating every facet of life.’

Few persons have read all forty-six novels, which represent about half of Galdos’ total output; in all candour, it will be some time before I finish reading every volume in the five series.

Nevertheless, the following essay is offered as an introduction to one of the most ambitious literary projects ever conceived, an undertaking that spanned the novelist’s entire adult life.