El terror de 1824
Benito Peréz Galdós
Jan 2003 · LA CASE Books
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El terror de 1824 es el séptimo volumen de la Segunda Serie de los Episodios Nacionales de Benito Pérez Galdós. Fue publicada en 1877. El título hace alusión a las persecuciones, detenciones y ejecuciones que Fernando VII de España llevó a cabo tras la restauración absolutista. Esta obra, hace referencia a los meses inmediatamente posteriores al triunfo del absolutismo tras el periodo conocido como Trienio Liberal.
La maquinaria represiva del rey absoluto se pone en marcha. Teniendo como protagonistas a dos personajes: el maestro Sarmiento, inflamado liberal en pleno tiempo de dominio y represalias absolutistas, y Sola, esa chica huérfana protegida por Salvador Monsalud, el cual, actualmente, se encuentra en Londres, exiliado. Sarmiento, un nuevo Quijote enloquecido ante el fracaso de las ideas liberales, el cual ha perdido a su hijo en la guerra, es cuidado por Sola, hija de un antiguo antagonista político del maestro, y, ambos, se encontrarán envueltos en una conspiración liberal con la que no tienen nada que ver. Condenados a muerte, Sola será salvada in extremis por su rival amorosa, Genara, mientras que Sarmiento acabará muriendo ahorcado.
El terror de 1824 es el séptimo volumen de la Segunda Serie de los Episodios Nacionales de Benito Pérez Galdós. Fue publicada en 1877. El título hace alusión a las persecuciones, detenciones y ejecuciones que Fernando VII de España llevó a cabo tras la restauración absolutista. Esta obra, hace re...
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Perez Galdos was Spain's outstanding nineteenth-century novelist. At a time when most Spanish novelists were limited by their regional backgrounds, Galdos possessed the intellect and vision to embrace the Spanish people as a nation. In 1873 he began the Episodios nacionales (National Episodes), a 46--volume series of historical novels in which he was concerned less with details and facts of history than with their impact on the lives of ordinary people. His works are sometimes divided into two periods: novels of the first period and contemporary Spanish novels. His early novels, Dona Perfecta (1876), Gloria (1877), Marianela (1878), and The Family of Leon Roch (1879), may be characterized as realistic with touches of romanticism. The novels are united by common characters and themes in the manner of Balzac's Human Comedy. Dona Perfecta is a denunciation of intolerance. Marianela explores the irony and tragedy of the destruction of love by scientific progress. Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-87), a four-volume masterpiece of the second period, contrasts two women - Jacinta, wife of the wealthy middle-class Juanito Santa Cruz, and Fortunata, his mistress. Both are admirable characters, but it is Fortunata who bears a son, demonstrating the vitality of the lower classes. The character of Maxi reveals Galdos's interest in mental illness and his naturalistic strain. Born and educated in the Canary Islands, Perez Galdos studied law briefly and spent most of his adult life in Madrid. His study of lower-class Spanish life and his attempts to improve it led him to the advocacy of more equal distribution of wealth and outspoken opposition to the Catholic church. While always popular with the people, he fared less well in literary circles. In 1889 he sought admission to the Royal Academy, an honor he was refused until 1897, and the Nobel Prize went to a contemporary, Jose Echegaray, a writer of considerably less talent. Galdos died poor and blind. Although the government refused him a state funeral, the entire Spanish nation mourned him. English translations of his novels now out of print are The Disinherited Lady (1881), Miau (1888), Compassion (1897), and Tristana.
Perez Galdos was Spain's outstanding nineteenth-century novelist. At a time when most Spanish novelists were limited by their regional backgrounds, Galdos possessed the intellect and vision to embrace the Spanish people as a nation. In 1873 he began the Episodios nacionales (National Episodes), a...
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