Fortunata y Jacinta / Fortunata and Jacinta

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«Pero tiene que haber olvido, como tiene que haber muerte. Sin olvido, no habría hueco para las ideas y los sentimientos nuevos.»

Fortunata y Jacinta no es únicamente la gran novela de referencia del siglo XIX, sino también una obra fundamental del legado cultural español en la que Galdós narra la historia de dos mujeres. Jacinta está casada con Juanito Santa Cruz, quien le asegura la continuidad de una posición social acomodada. No obstante, lejos de conformarse con la seguridad de un hogar burgués, ella vive atormentada por las infidelidades de su marido y se siente incapaz, por su propia condición de mujer, de hallar una salida a la prisión dorada en la que vive. Entre las amantes más odiadas de su marido está Fortunata, una mujer de clase obrera que, a pesar de su situación, parece gozar de aquello que más ansía. Sin embargo, Fortunata también se siente atrapada, pues su condición social le impide legitimar un amor que cree más genuino que el impuesto por el matrimonio.

La presente edición está a cargo de los hermanos María Luisa Sotelo Vázquez y Adolfo Sotelo Vázquez, profesores de literatura española de la Universidad de Barcelona, cuyo estudio introductorio y aparato de notas acercan al lector a un mundo gobernado por la doble moral.

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The best books ever written. “But there must be obscurity, just like there has to be death. Without oblivion, there would be no room for new ideas and feelings.”
 
Fortunata and Jacinta is not only the great model novel of the 19th century, but also a fundamental work in the Spanish cultural legacy.
 
Jacinta is married to Juanito Santa Cruz, who assures her of a comfortable social position. However, rather than being content with the security of a well-appointed home, she lives tormented by her husband’s infidelities, and as a woman she feels incapable of finding an escape from the golden prison she lives in. One of her husband’s most despised lovers is Fortunata, a working-class woman who, despite her situation, seems to enjoy that which she most longs for. Nevertheless, Fortunata also feels trapped, because her social condition prevents her from pursuing a love that she believes is more genuine than that of the married couple.
 
This edition is led by siblings María Luisa Sotelo Vázquez and Adolfo Sotelo Vázquez, professors of Spanish literature at the University of Barcelona, whose introductory study and notes bring the reader closer to a world governed by a double standard.
 

This book title, Fortunata y Jacinta / Fortunata and Jacinta, ISBN: 9788491053682, by Benito Perez Galdos, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (May 21, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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