Wisdom of Eccentric Old Men A Study of Type and Secondary Character in Galdós's Social Novels, 1870-1897 |
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| Author:
| Bly, Peter Anthony |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7735-7230-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2004 |
| Publisher: | McGill-Queen's University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $95.00 |
Book Description:
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The wise fool, the sensible madman, and the village idiot, traditional characters in European literature, are best-known through Don Quixote. Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920), Spain's most important novelist after Cervantes, contributed to this corpus with a number of principal characters whose affinity to Cervantes's hero is clearly recognizable. In "The Wisdom of Eccentric Old Men" Peter Bly demonstrates that a number of Galdós's secondary characters - the eccentric old men who appear...
More DescriptionThe wise fool, the sensible madman, and the village idiot, traditional characters in European literature, are best-known through Don Quixote. Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920), Spain's most important novelist after Cervantes, contributed to this corpus with a number of principal characters whose affinity to Cervantes's hero is clearly recognizable. In "The Wisdom of Eccentric Old Men" Peter Bly demonstrates that a number of Galdós's secondary characters - the eccentric old men who appear with regular frequency in the realist social novels of his most important period of writing, 1876 to1897 - can be classified as a variant or sub-group of this type.