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- Anales Galdosianos
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- Copyright © by the Author
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- 2161-301X
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Abstract
SENÉN MANUEL VIVERO. El arte narrativo de Galdós: `Lo prohibido.' New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. 320 pp. J. Bottaro This book is an insightful and well-conceived scholarly work about Lo prohibido, one of the Novelas Contemporáneas of Benito Pérez Galdós, which analyzes, with arguments fully and accurately documented, the thematic and discursive structures of the novel. Vivero (Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York) analyzes the structure and studies the main categories of the narrative discourse of Lo prohibido: time--considering categories of order, duration, and frequency and their connections with canonical narrative forms--and voice--which comprises an in-depth analysis of the novel's principal voices. Vivero's starting point regarding structure is that there is a purposefully elaborated coherence between the thematic and the plot structures of the novel. He points out, convincingly, that the first chapter of the novel not only proposes the principal thematic oppositions of the text but also advances the development of the plot and the principal traits of the main characters. The development of the story confirms Vivero's idea that the textual organization of the novel--both thematically and as a highly organized narrative discourse-- responds to a perfectly calculated plan that
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Anales Galdosianos – Anales Galdosianos
Published: Dec 19, 2011