Doña Perfecta: Piety and Provincial Spain Against a Young Engineer
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A young engineer from Madrid comes to a small cathedral town to marry his cousin and finds the whole place — his aunt, the priest, the streets — quietly organized against him, because he has read the wrong books. Galdós wrote some eighty novels and is held the greatest Spaniard since Cervantes; this short, cold one is where he stopped being polite about clerical Spain. Fifty-eight plates, from El Greco to Sorolla, trace the austere Castilian light and clerical shadow that hang over Galdós's small, cold town.
A young engineer from Madrid comes to a small cathedral town to marry his cousin and finds the whole place — his aunt, the priest, the streets — quietly organized against him, because he has read the wrong books. Galdós wrote some eighty novels and is held the greatest Spaniard since Cervantes; t...
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Benito Pérez Galdós was a Spanish novelist widely held to be the greatest since Cervantes, author of some eighty novels including the forty-six-volume National Episodes retelling a century of Spanish history. A fierce anticlerical and republican deputy, he went blind in his last years and dictated his work. Catholic opposition is thought to have cost him the Nobel Prize.
Benito Pérez Galdós was a Spanish novelist widely held to be the greatest since Cervantes, author of some eighty novels including the forty-six-volume National Episodes retelling a century of Spanish history. A fierce anticlerical and republican deputy, he went blind in his last years and dictate...
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