Cervantes and Galdos in Fortunata Y Jacinta-Tales of Impertinent Curiosity: Tales of Impertinent Curiosity (Hispanic Literature)

Benito Perez Galdos, who was Spain's preeminent 19th-century novelist, could not escape the cervantismo plaguing every Spanish author since Don Quijote appeared. This affiliation entails an Oedipal love-hate relationship with Cervantes, mirroring Cervantes' own ambivalence toward chivalric romances. Larsen (Spanish, U. of Wyomingo Laramie) analyzes the manifestations of this affliction in Galdos' masterwork, Fortuna y Jacinta (1886-87). Specifically, he shows how the novel embedded within Cervantes' magnum opus, La Novela del curioso impertinente ("The Tale of Foolish Curiosity"), left its legacy in parallels in Galdos' epic of Spanish middle class life in the second half of the 19th century.Kevin S. Larsen is the author of 'Cervantes and Galdos in Fortunata Y Jacinta-Tales of Impertinent Curiosity: Tales of Impertinent Curiosity (Hispanic Literature)' with ISBN 9780773479272 and ISBN 0773479279.