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...Gifford Davis Pérez Galdós, Spanish Liberal Crusader . By Berkowitz H. Chonon . Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press , 1948 . Pp. xi , 499 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 490 The South Atlantic Quarterly Fowey, he continued to write (all sorts...

... who were close to the author s life. These details are woven into the narration so anonymously that they must be accepted on the authority of the biographer, unless these same intimates either confirm or deny them. There is no study or analysis of Galdos s writings. The reader un­ acquainted with them...

... literature. P. F. Baum. Perez Galdos, Spanish Liberal Crusader. By H. Chonon Berko­ witz. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1948. Pp. xi, 499. $6.00. This is a book of exhaustive scholarship and of honest thought. It rewards the reader with precisely what its title, preface, and introductory...

... Cultural Studies. She has written extensively on modern and contemporary literature and film and on the Spanish political transition. She is the author of El mono del desencanto: Una crítica cultural de la transición española (1973– 1993) (Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1998) and of Galdós: Invención de la mujer y...

... as a practicing critic whose range was equal, perhaps superior, to James s and T. S. Perry s. Mostly they elucidate works of individual writers: Turgenev, Verga, Galdos, Ibsen, Hardy, Zola, and Tolstoy among the Europeans, and De Forest, Bellamy, Garland, Crane, and Norris among the Americans. The final group...

... and quotes extensively on appropriate occasions. But are not all occasions appropriate for the quotation of this writer, whose wit and freshness have earned him a devotion comparable only to the cults of Balzac, Galdos, and Dickens among their respective national readerships? Unlike the early or midcentury...

... Spaniards who have guided Spain to her present condition of comparative prosperity and who have made possible the literary Spain of Perez-Galdos, Pio Baroja, Azorin and Benavente, visioned a new imperial greatness for Spain in the union of the far-flung Spanish and Portuguese-speaking nations. Many causes...

... or Benito Perez Galdos, or a combination of the two. Action and information develop with a realism and detail suggestive ofjournalism. Language is popular and unadorned. The subject matter is contemporary Brazil, its people and controversies, regions, classes, types, and stereotypes. Dias Gomes ideology...

... place. Like Balzac, and Perez Galdos in Spain, he was attempting a panoramic por­ trayal of his generation. One would not look to this author for a sympathetic treatment of the representatives of the Cath­ olic faith. But if the actual relations of the Church and the republic were at all faithfully...