Literature & Literary Studies

Tristana

by Benito Pérez Galdós

by Catherine Davies, Pablo Valdivia

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Tristana is a novel where love, hate and power converge into a triangle of domination and frustration.Galdós', following the ideas of the Free Teaching Institution, intervened in the arena of the debate around the emancipation of women and their incorporation into the public sphere. Tristana, a young woman subjected to the rule of the tyrannical Don Lope, idealistically tries to find her purpose on life but she ends trapped by the rules of a world dominated by men who only see her as the object of their desire. Written in an experimental manner that defies the boundaries of theatre, epistolary and novel genres, Galdós' displays the purest nature of his characters by presenting their contradictions, weaknesses and virtues. He uses a deliberately ambiguous style that seeks to address fundamental questions regarding the unbalances of a Madrid in times of turbulence, but leaves the reader to draw their own meaning.

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In Galdós' Tristana flourishes the contradictory world of the Spanish fin de siècle. The conflictive triangle of human relations created by the characters of Don Lope, Horacio and Tristana is driven by the common denominator of the frustration that all suffer under the strict hypocritical conventions of the society of their time. This volume is the most complete edition of Tristana to date. It has been prepared taking into account not only the original manuscript but also the various interventions of editors and critics who have dealt with the novel. The book includes a glossary of contemporary reactions to the publication of the novel, a selected vocabulary, and a chronological table that will help the reader approach Tristana from a richer and more accurate perspective. Tristana engages with our current public debates on education and equality in parallel to the exploration of universal human drivers such as love, hate and power. The filmmaker Luis Buñuel, after his return to Spain from exile, chose Tristana for his next film as it revealed the contradictions and societal challenges of his time. Thanks to Buñuel and the quality of Galdós' prose, Tristana has become a modern classic which epitomises the repression of women, the quest for their emancipation and the importance of women's empowerment through education. Students and Lecturers of Hispanic Studies will find this book especially useful for the study of modern Hispanic narrative, Hispanic film studies and gender studies. An important range of fundamental issues and conflicts can be related to the novel, and the themes presented for discussion in class, along with the appendices, will trigger stimulating class debates and further readings.

Author Biography

Catherine Davies is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Manchester;

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Manchester University Press
  • Publication Date August 2016
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9780719099212 / 0719099218
  • Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
  • ReadershipGeneral/trade
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Dimensions198 X 129 mm
  • SeriesHispanic Texts
  • Reference Code6614

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