Emilia Pardo Bazán (condesa de)

Emilia Pardo Bazan

María de los Ángeles Ayala

Emilia Pardo Bazán reivindicó un "naturalismo" autóctono, de carácter castizo y propio de la literatura española. "Los Pazos de Ulloa" es una muestra de esta convicción y su obra más destacada. Como otras novelas europeas del cambio de siglo, es la saga de una clase social en decadencia: la aristocracia rural gallega. Dramáticas escenas entre personajes trazados con fuerza, descripciones intensas de una estructura política corrupta, alternan con las evocaciones del campo. Novela regional, pero no regionalista, no se limita en sus implicaciones a una región elegida por su pintoresquismo, sino que se inspira en esa ambientación para hacernos una declaración universal de la época.

Los pazos de Ulloa

cartas a Galdós

Miquiño mío

Emilia Pardo Bazán publica " Insolación " cuando ya había sido reconocida como gran novelista tras el éxito de las narraciones de Los Pazos de Ulloa y La Madre Naturaleza sus conocimientos sobre la novela europea la llevan entonces a la tribuna del Ateneo y comienza a enviar crónicas de su viaje a Italia a El Imparcial. Insolación es, según su autora, un " estudio episódico " . La inexorable premisa naturalista está ausente en esta novela, la presencia del mundo exterior es mas relevante y está subordinada al mundo íntimo de las criaturas literarias. Esto se plasmará en el empleo de una inusitada y más compleja técnica narrativa, de la que el episodio de la Marquesa de Andrade será el inicio de una fase de narración más espiritualista en el sostenido realismo de Emilia Pardo Bazán.

historia amorosa

Insolación

antología de cuentos oscuros

La resucitada

El encaje roto y otros cuentos

Las frases frágiles

Desde el punto de vista personal, Emilia Pardo Bazán ha llegado a su madurez cuando escribe «Memorias de un solterón». En 1896, fecha de publicación de la novela, doña Emilia es una mujer totalmente independiente, dedicada en cuerpo y alma a la literatura. Está decidida a afrontar las experiencias que le depare el destino guiada exclusivamente por su propio criterio y conciencia. «Memorias de un solterón» pertenece a una nueva etapa literaria que los críticos distinguen después de la aparición de sus novelas más claramente naturalistas. La autora idea un plan novelístico similar al que Balzac, Zola o Galdós han llevado a la práctica. En su caso, las novelas se centran en la descripción y análisis de las relaciones entre hombre y mujer, y en la institución legal que las regula: el matrimonio. A través de los personajes femeninos de «Memorias de un solterón», doña Emilia da entrada a sus ideas sobre la situación de la mujer en su época, ya desenhebradas en multitud de ensayos publicados, analizando especialmente la problemática de las jóvenes que pertenecen a la llamada clase media.

Memorias de un solterón

novela policíaca inédita

Los misterios de Selva

La madre naturaleza

Al pie de la torre Eiffel

La revolución y la novela en Rusia

A Christian Woman

Midsummer Madness

La aventura de Isidro

Marianna Alcoforado

Cartas de amor de la monja portuguesa Mariana Alcoforado

Emilia Pardo Bazán was born in the Galician town of A Coruña into a noble family who nurtured her lifelong thirst for knowledge. She is undoubtedly the most controversial, influential and prolific Spanish female writer of the nineteenth century, publishing a vast number of essays, social commentaries, articles, reviews, poems, plays, novels, novellas and short stories. Her third novel, La Tribuna, heralds a new age in Spanish literature, a naturalist work of fiction that examines the situation of contemporary women workers. The author's preparation for the novel involved reading and consulting contemporary pamphlets and newspapers, as well as spending two months in a Galician tobacco factory observing and listening to conversations. This method, common in English writers like Dickens and frequently adopted in France by the masters of Realism, was almost unprecedented in Spain. Set against a background of turmoil and civil unrest, La Tribuna reflects the author's interest in the position of women in Spanish society. The working-class heroine, Amparo, develops from a shapeless, apolitical street urchin into a masterpiece of femininity, a charismatic orator who becomes a 'tribune' of the people. At the same time, however, she allows herself to be seduced by a prosperous middle-class youth whose promises prove to be just as empty as the revolutionary slogans in which she believes so fervently.

La Tribuna: Translated with Commentary

Rosa de Diego

La cuestión palpitante es considerado el libro teórico más importante de la narrativa española decimonónica. Acabó con el matrimonio de su autora, pues su marido (con quien se casó siendo ambos jovencísimos) la puso en la alternativa de decidir entre él o su obra. Esta obra se perfila como el texto idóneo para comprender tanto la evolución ideológica y estilística de la intelectual gallega como algunos rasgos específicos del Naturalismo español.

La cuestión palpitante

"This is a collection of stories by Emilia Pardo Bazan (1851-1921), a Spanish author who often found the subject matter of her stories in the mysteries and vicissitudes of life. Some of her tales are fictional accounts of actual occurrences or people ("The Pardon," "A Galician Mother," and "The Lady Bandit"); others are a defense of women subjugated by a double standard ("The Guilty Woman" and "The Faithful Fiancee"); a number focus on the figure of the rural priest ("A Descendant of the Cid" and "Don Carmelo's Salvation," for example). One highly symbolic story - "The White Horse" - qualifies Pardo Bazan as the godmother of the Generation of 98, the group of writers who exhorted Spain to begin anew, ridding itself of inertia, apathy, and fixation on past glories. Several of the collected tales are like contemporary suspense thrillers (such as "The Cuff Link" and "The White Hair"), while many others reveal a keen psychological insight ("The Torn Lace," "The Substitute," "Scissors," "The Nurse," and "Rescue"). Pardo Bazan's themes are fear, love, hatred, forgiveness, cruelty, poverty, necrophilia, repentance, homesickness, and madness - that is, naked reality, bitter reality, and often an ugly, vicious reality." "One of the indisputable giants of the nineteenth-century short story is Guy de Maupassant. Pardo Bazan met him (along with Daudet and Zola) in France and considered him - author of "The Horla" - to be the master of short story writers. However, although Maupassant influenced her (most notably in psychological inquiry and careful attention to realistic detail), Pardo Bazan put her own stamp on her stories and developed a style sui generis, the most striking feature of which is brevity." "The essence of Pardo Bazan's approach is to engage the reader as quickly as possible, certainly in the first paragraph, frequently in the first few sentences. Some aspect of a character or an episode is brought to light and the story unfolds rapidly. There are third-person narratives in which the author occasionally injects herself or her point of view. Other narratives are presented wholly in the first person - some by an omniscient narrator, some by the "players"; and, from time to time, Pardo Bazan has someone else tell the story to her, and then as narrator she becomes the audience." "It is entirely plausible that some of her graphic descriptions were intended to blunt accusations of softness (i.e., femininity) that in her era would - foolishly, but automatically - have been associated with a woman writer. Still, when the time came to represent the plight of women - in terms of natural, understandable sexual needs and intellectual acceptance - Pardo Bazan captured the anguish and inferior status of her Spanish sisters."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

"The White Horse" and Other Stories

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