Name: Misericordia
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Author: Galdos, Benito Perez ; de Salis, Charles ; Crumey, Andrew
ISBN: 9781912868780

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Author

Charles de Salis

Introduction by

Andrew Crumey

Publisher

Dedalus

Language

English

Pages

280

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9781912868780

Edition No.

0002

Synopsis "Misericordia"

Benito Perez Galdos is often called the Spanish Charles Dickens or the Spanish Balzac, and is one of the great European nineteenth-century novelists. Misericordia (1897) is set among the Madrid poor, and to give his novel authenticity Galdos spent many months studying the lives of the destitute and of professional beggars. The theme of the novel is the problem of goodness, embodied in the servant Benina, whose entire life is a struggle to keep the middle-class family she works for from sliding into poverty. "Crushed by poverty or the weight of their pretensions, the high and low life of 19th century Madrid provides the cast for this enjoyably bleak portrait of a family's decline, fall and recovery. The widow Dona Francisca, reduced from salon to slum, is protected by her servant Benita, who begs and barters in a daily battle with starvation and her mistress's pride. When a sudden inheritance enriches the old crow, Benita is cast aside. Galdos's Spain teems with saints and sinners, corrupted as much by poverty as by wealth." -- The Sunday Times

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