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Ogusu Eizo
Department Undergraduate School , School of Law Position Professor |
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| Language | Spanish |
| Publication Date | 2024/03 |
| Type | Book Chapter Paper |
| Peer Review | Peer reviewed |
| Title | GALDÓS, PIONEER IN THE «RAILWAY NOVEL» IN SPAIN? |
| Contribution Type | Sole-authored |
| Journal Type | Another Country |
| Volume, Issue, Page | pp.854-869 |
| Total page number | 16 |
| Author and coauthor | Eizo Ogusu |
| Details | In the 19th century, with the advent of the newest means of transportation, the railroad, the fiction incorporating rail travel appeared in the literature of many countries.
In this presentation, I will compare the "Carta primera" (1864) of Cartas desde mi celda by Gustavo Adolfoo Bécquer (1836-70), which has been considered the pioneer of Spanish railroad literature (prose), and Benito Pérez Galdós's (1843-1920) Rosalía, which was found as a handwritten draft. Rosalía will be compared and their respective merits as railroad literature will be enumerated. I will then highlight the decisive differences between the two works and show that these differences are based on the different aesthetic horizons of the two authors. And I argue that if Rosalía had been published at the time, Pérez Galdós would have been a pioneer of railroad fiction in Spain. |