Author : Thomas R. Franz
Release : 2000
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis In Dialogue with Valera by : Thomas R. Franz
Download or read book In Dialogue with Valera written by Thomas R. Franz. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juan Valera (1824-1905) was Spain's only realist with a lifelong insistence that narrative privilege invention over testimony. Throughout Valera's lengthy career, his novels engaged in a running esthetic debate with those of his chief rivals, Galdós and Alas. This debate, chronicled in the present work, led to many compromises and ultimately produced, in the twentieth-century fiction of Valle-Inclán and Unamuno, a novelistic form, also detailed here, that exhibited clear debts to Valera's catalytic influence.