Halma by Benito Pérez Galdós / translated by Robert S. Rudder and Ignacio López-Calvo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rudder, Robert S., translator.

López-Calvo, Ignacio, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish literature--19th century.

Spanish literature.

Spanish literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Galdós's early writings were inspired by the French writer Émile Zola, a practitioner of the literary school of Naturalism. This interest then turned to a type of spiritual naturalism under the influence of Russian writers, including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev, whom he called his ""great teacher."" One of his most important works during this period was the novel, Nazarín, a kind of retelling of the life of Christ, in which the main character, a disgraced priest, wanders about the countryside with two female companions, attempting to follow the teachings of the Bible to the letter. He is

Contents:

""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PART I""; ""PART II""; ""PART III""; ""PART IV""; ""PART V""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 18, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4438-7494-9

OCLC:

913697381