PORTRAIT – The publication of “Fortunata and Jacinta”, a masterpiece by the prolific Spanish writer, is accompanied by an essay on his work by Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa.
Fortunata and Jacinta Is it Galdos' greatest novel? No doubt. The greatest Spanish novel of the 19th centurye century — in competition with The Regentby Clarin — which was the great century of the European novel? No doubt too. At least that's what Mario Vargas Llosa thinks, who spent the time of confinement reading Galdos's more than abundant work in its entirety and devoted an essay to him which appears today in France.
At the same time as we can read a new translation of Fortunata and Jacintaincluding the previous one, published by the French publishers reunited, who have done enormously to make the author of Misericordiahas long since become untraceable.
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