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The wisdom of eccentric old men : a study of type and secondary character in Galdós's social novels, 1870-1897

Title: The wisdom of eccentric old men : a study of type and secondary character in Galdós's social novels, 1870-1897 / Peter Anthony Bly.
Author: Bly, Peter.
Publication: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004.

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xii, 237 pages; 24 cm

Summary

The wise fool, the sensible madman, and the village idiot, traditional characters in European literature, are best-known through Don Quixote. Galdós, Spain's most important novelist after Cervantes, contributed to this corpus with a number of principal characters whose affinity to Cervantes's hero is clearly recognizable. Bly demonstrates that a number of Galdós's secondary characters - the eccentric old men who appear with regular frequency in the realist social novels of his most important period of writing, 1876 to1897 - can be classified as a variant or sub-group of this type.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Initial experiments -- Establishing the eccentric mould: Cayetano Polentinos -- Loyal go-between: José Mundideo -- A principal: José de Relimpio y Sastre -- Armchair politician and educator: Florencio Morales y Temprado -- Fantasy novelist: José Ido del Sagrario -- Real novelist: Plácido Estupiñá -- Religious acolyte: Luis Agapito Babel -- Religious patron: Pedro de Belmonte -- Celestial visionary: Frasquito Ponte Delgado.

ISBN

0773528024
9780773528024

LCCN

2005277197

OCLC

ocm55146776
55146776
SCSB-9163478

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Princeton University Library