Talk:Benito Pérez Galdós

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"However, his chance of international fame was sabotaged by his own jealous countrymen, when they launched a slander campaign against him after learning that he would be nominated for the Nobel Prize." Some justification is needed for the inclusion of this strange story. Xxanthippe

The version by 69.125.74.135 is a shambles. I will revert to version of 17 August 2006 if there are no objections. Xxanthippe 09:25, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

"Considered second only to Cervantes in stature" I recognize that a citation is given for this claim, but the citation offers nothing more than a statement of the same claim. As a student of Spanish literature, I do not believe that this opinion would be considered mainstream. Strangeinterlude (talk) 01:57, 8 September 2009 (UTC)StrangeinterludeStrangeinterlude (talk) 01:57, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Greetings Strangeinterlude, and thanks for your contribution. The citation correctly reflects Galdós' status as a Spanish writer. Together with Leopoldo Alas, "Clarín", he is considered one of the two most inportant figures of the prosa realista española, which is that language's most important literary movement - after Cervantes. Unfortunately sources are obviously easier to find in Spanish than in English, and cannot therefore be usefully included in the article, but as an example, here are two citations from Planeta's Guía Temática (which is about as mainstream as you can get) which might help you get a perspective: "Se le considera el mayor novelista contemporáneo en castellano." and "...como novelista fue a figura cumbre del realismo español."

Possibly your view is tainted by the fact that - to quote the same mainstream source above - "A pesar de ser uno de los novelistas más reconocidos en lengua castellana, Galdós, sólo muy recientemente ha empezado a ser reconocido fuera de España."

However, intrigued by your doubt, I went off to have a butcher's at an English-language mainstream source and this is what Encyclopedia Britannica has to say: "...considered by some critics the greatest Spanish novelist since Cervantes, often compared to Balzac, Dickens, and Tolstoy." - a citation I shall now incorporate into the article. I respectfully suggest that, equally respectfully, you ask your Spanish literature teachers why they have not yet introduced you to this writer, or if they have, why they have not transmitted the status this writer enjoys in his own country. Regards, --Technopat (talk) 09:55, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Rewrite

I have expanded and rewritten the article to include supplementary material and make it more coherent. I haver retained as much of the existing material as I could within my scheme, but there were a bunch of judgments that I felt could be discarded. I hope the original writers of the article do not mind. I hope the agree that the rewritten article is a better tribute to Don Benito. Quevedo (talk) 00:01, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Was he married?

Berkowitz states at diiferent points that the publication of his first novel was assisted by money from his sister-in-law. However, at another point, he states that Galdos never married. Does anyone have any knowledge on this? The Spanish page on Galdos says he never married and that he received the money from an aunt - but it cites no source.

Quevedo (talk) 11:25, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Date of Birth and Birth Place

I have a play entitled "Electra" which is copyrighted in 1902 by Otis Gridley Bunnell. The following is quoted from the first paragraph of the Introduction written by OGB, and I assume that the copyright has expired: "Benito Perez Galdos, the author of the following drama, was born May 10, 1845, at Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands. Through modesty, or reserve, he has withheld every biographical detail concerning his early life. In fact his biographer, Leopoldo Alas, tells us that it was only with the greatest difficulty he obtained from him the admission that he was born in the Canary Islands. He studied there in the State College, and came to Madrid in 1863, for the purpose of reading law. This profession held but little interest for him, and he did not follow it further. He was already dreaming of a literary career, and after a brief trial of journalism, his first novel, "La Fontana de Oro(1871), was published. " — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.78.56.88 (talk) 05:59, 5 December 2016 (UTC)