A Blind Prophet and a Mendacious Seeing. Urban Frontiers in Fin-de-Siècle Madrid (Misericordia by Benito Pérez Galdos, 1897)
Abstract
The article underlines some underrated aspects of the interest Galdós demonstrates, in the eighties and nineties of the nineteenth century, for narrative strategies contradicting a strict adherence to realism. In particular, with Misericordia the author looks into the anatomy of Madrid's social body to find in the category of the social outcasts a possible deliverance.
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