Conflicts and Conciliations: The Evolution of Galdos's Fortuna Y Jacinta (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781557531087)

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.

Author: Geoffrey Ribbans
ISBN-10: 1557531080
ISBN-13: 9781557531087
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1997
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.24w x 1.00d