Benito Perez Galdos, Author Latin American Literary Review Press $18 (350p) ISBN 978-0-935480-36-8
This lengthy first novel, written in 1870 when the author, the ``Spanish Balzac,'' was 27 years old, now seems excessively contrived; nevertheless, as meticulously translated into English for the first time and annotated by a leading Galdos scholar,
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Benito Perez Galdos, Author, Benito Perez Galdos, Author, Robert H. Russell, Translator Columbia University Press $90 (261p) ISBN 978-0-231-06404-0
Individual works of fiction ( Fortunata and Jacinta; Torquemada by Galdos, Spain's master of the 19th century novel, have recently begun to appear in English translations. Galdos, whom historians class with Cervantes, shows a flair for metafiction...
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Benito Perez Galdos, Author, Agnes M. Gullon, Translator University of Georgia Press $25 (818p) ISBN 978-0-8203-0783-1
This new translation of Spanish novelist Perez Galdos's 19th century tale depicting society during the Alfonsine restoration of 1875, a masterpiece patterned on Balzac and Dickens, provides a read that is startlingly fresh and immediate. Fortunata,...
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Benito Pérez Galdós, trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. New York Review Books, $16.95 trade paper (184p) ISBN 978-1-59017-765-5
Readers both new to this haunting tale and those already familiar with the exquisite 1970 Luis Buñuel film adaptation (starring Catherine Deneuve) should rejoice at the arrival of this brilliant new translation of a mesmerizing novel from Galdós,...
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