In Dialogue with Valera

Download or read book In Dialogue with Valera written by Thomas R. Franz and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juan Valera (1824-1905) was Spain's only realist with a lifelong insistence that narrative privilege invention over testimony. Throughout Valera's lengthy career, his novels engaged in a running esthetic debate with those of his chief rivals, Galdós and Alas. This debate, chronicled in the present work, led to many compromises and ultimately produced, in the twentieth-century fiction of Valle-Inclán and Unamuno, a novelistic form, also detailed here, that exhibited clear debts to Valera's catalytic influence.