Pérez Galdós, Benito
Pérez Galdós, Benito (1843–1920),most important Spanish novelist in the 19th century. His contribution to the short‐story genre has been traditionally overlooked, and not until recently have his tales been published together and regarded as a valuable corpus. Out of his 20 stories, twelve are of a fantastic nature. The latter, recently published in a collection entitled Cuentos Fantásticos (Fantastic Tales, 1996), suggest that Pérez Galdós was influenced at least in part by E. T. A. Hoffmann and Edgar Allan Poe. In particular, his tale ‘La princesa y el granuja’ (‘The Princess and the Urchin’, 1977) bears some resemblance to Hoffmann's ‘The Sandman’ (1817) to the extent that the central male characters in both stories fall in love with a wax doll.
Carolina Fernandez
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