Galdós

Benito Pérez Galdós (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1843-Madrid, 1920) is still largely a poorly known writer, whose genius, one hundred years after his death, is still not appreciated to the height he deserves. Galdós. A biography, a brilliant winner of the Comillas Prize for History, Biography and Memories 2020, manages to masterfully reconstruct the author's extensive literary career, while placing him in his complex historical, political and social context. Relying on Galdós's most diverse texts -novela, theater, criticism, memoirs and miscellaneous prose-, Yolanda Arencibia, undoubtedly the greatest contemporary expert in her work, offers us an extraordinary portrait of who was the great renovator of the Spanish novel, a character who was also always attentive to new European cultural and social impulses. The republican Galdós, regenerationist and advanced feminist, despised by the reactionaries but acclaimed by countless readers already in his time, stands out in this memorable biography as one of the greatest Spanish-language writers of all time, as well as an outstanding example of a Spain of Cervantes lineage, liberal and progressive spirit, and as a living and current author, who still raises debates and controversies.