by Benito Pérez Galdós · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437639468
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Las novelas de Torquemada (1889-1895) is a masterpiece of language and one of the best creations of Benito Pérez Galdós. This Cátedra edition, by Ignacio Javier López, tells the story of the usurer Francisco Torquemada and his prodigious economic and social ascent, also narrating his enormous sufferings. The protagonist rises to the highest positions in finance and politics, while learning the language and customs of good society. In this series of four novels, Galdós represents the character through his speech, resulting in a superb exercise in style that integrates these novels into the renewal of the genre at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist and politician. He was a leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist.
