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Conflicts and Conciliations: The Evolution of Galdos's Fortuna Y Jacinta

Conflicts and Conciliations: The Evolution of Galdos's Fortuna Y Jacinta

Ribbans, Geoffrey

Hardcover

Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, Book 14

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1557531080
ISBN13: 9781557531087
Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr
Published: Nov 1 1997
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.46
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Between 1881 and 1897, Benito Pérez Galdós, generally acknowledged as Spain's greatest nineteenth-century novelist, composed some twenty contemporary novels, which Geoffrey Ribbans characterizes as the peak of his achievement. This monumental study traces the evolution of the many strands that make up one of them: the long and complex novel Fortunata y Jacinta. Ribbans examines the various stages of composition, not only the earlier, reconstructed Alpha version but also subsequent revisions in the much corrected handwritten text and in the printer's galleys. He treats these tentative drafts as part of the process of reaching out toward the coherent definitive text. Ribbans's analysis of such devices as the ambiguous role of the narrator, the use of free indirect style and direct dialogue, and the construction of distinctive ideolects leads to the heart of his study, the development of Galdós's characters.

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