Emilia Pardo Bazán y su fascinación por la criminología

Everything fits in a book like this. Real crimes, poverty as a source of crime and the extraordinary ability of a unique woman to unravel the essence of it all. Emilia Pardo Bazán based herself on those crimes, which attracted her attention, to write short novels. But she always made the difference between real and fictional crime very clear. For her, the invented crime is "cerebral, geometric and mathematical, so different from human reality and so similar to chess problems". For this very reason, due to their imperfection, the real crimes were of maximum interest to him, to the point of going to the scene of the event to observe with his own eyes the details that the chroniclers had missed and, later, to give his opinion on all of it in your articles. She left them no puppet with a head. She criticized the investigators who did not act professionally in the visual inspection of the crime scene. To the victims and the murderers, and she does it with her peculiar grace and her freedom of thought. Marisol Donis collects Emilia Pardo Bazán's follow-up of some of the most memorable and barbaric crimes of her time: the crime in the Pericote pine forest; the one on San Andrés Street; the crimes on Fuencarral Street; the "womanicides"... Nothing was foreign to her, she followed and documented around thirty criminal events, scams, extended suicides... Real crimes that were not always solved by poor investigation, which led her to conclude, upset on many occasions , at the end of his articles: "The murderer has not been there." Pure Emilia Pardo Bazán. Pure delight for all readers of it.