Endorsements

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 present edition 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 edition ends with a glossary of contemporary reactions to the publication of the novel, selected vocabulary, and a chronological table that will help the reader approach Tristana from a richer and more accurate perspective. Furthermore, Tristana engages with our current public debates on education and equality in parallel to the exploration of human drives such as love, hate, power, which are of universal nature. No wonder Luis Buñuel, after his return to Spain back from the exile, chose Tristana for its first film in Spanish land as it revealed the contradictions and societal challenges of his time. Therefore, thanks to Buñuel and the quality of Galdós' prose,Tristana has become a modern classic which epitomizes 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 as an important range of fundamental issue and conflicts can be related to the novel. Hence, the themes presented for discussion in class and the appendices will trigger class debates and further readings. This edition is aimed to undergraduate and postgraduate students interested on learning about modern Hispanic narrative, Hispanic cinema and Hispanic culture. -