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A Note on Balzac and Galdós

A Note on Balzac and Galdós The first time I read Balzac's Les employés was in 1957, after I had read Ricardo Gullón's splendid edition of Miau. It was a professional reading. I was looking for clues to corroborate what Professor Gullón had found about the possible influence of Balzac's novel on Galdós's. Therefore, I focused on the Galdós novel mentioned by him. A recent casual, and un-professional second reading of Balzac's novel in an English translation published in the Centennial Edition of his works surprised me. It is this surprise that I wish to share with my fellow galdosistas. Of course, the presence of Balzac in Galdós has been the subject of many studies throughout the years.1 Professor Stephen Gilman in his wonderful book on Galdós devoted an interesting chapter that he called "A Colloquium of Novelists" in which he presents "the notion of a spontaneous and intuitive dialogue" (154) among novelists during the XIXth Century. Thus, it is not surprising that in our readings, however casual, of Galdós's novels we may find echoes of Cervantes, Dickens, Balzac, or themes that appear in novelists such as Flaubert, James, Tolstoy. In the particular case of Les employés there have been several detailed studies of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anales Galdosianos Anales Galdosianos

A Note on Balzac and Galdós

Cardona, Rodolfo
Anales Galdosianos , Volume 47 (1) – Dec 23, 2012
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The first time I read Balzac's Les employés was in 1957, after I had read Ricardo Gullón's splendid edition of Miau. It was a professional reading. I was looking for clues to corroborate what Professor Gullón had found about the possible influence of Balzac's novel on Galdós's. Therefore, I focused on the Galdós novel mentioned by him. A recent casual, and un-professional second reading of Balzac's novel in an English translation published in the Centennial Edition of his works surprised me. It is this surprise that I wish to share with my fellow galdosistas. Of course, the presence of Balzac in Galdós has been the subject of many studies throughout the years.1 Professor Stephen Gilman in his wonderful book on Galdós devoted an interesting chapter that he called "A Colloquium of Novelists" in which he presents "the notion of a spontaneous and intuitive dialogue" (154) among novelists during the XIXth Century. Thus, it is not surprising that in our readings, however casual, of Galdós's novels we may find echoes of Cervantes, Dickens, Balzac, or themes that appear in novelists such as Flaubert, James, Tolstoy. In the particular case of Les employés there have been several detailed studies of

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