Marianela

Resumen del libro

Marianela (1878) is a novel by Benito Perez Galdos. Published toward the beginning of Perez Galdos' career, Marianela is a powerful story of romance and disability that raises timeless questions regarding the meaning of love and the values associated with beauty. Adapted several times for film and television in Spain and abroad, the novel is Perez Galdos' most universal works of fiction.

Everyone is familiar with the phrase "love at first sight," but what about "love at first song?" In Marianela, Benito Perez Galdos explores the ways we understand love in relation to worldly beauty. His contemporary fable is set in the fictional town of Socartes, where a young orphan named Marianela captures the heart of the blind youth Pablo through her beautiful singing. Their love is pure, and they plan to marry, but Pablo's father has other plans.

Hiring the famous doctor Teodoro Golfin to restore his son's eyesight, he unwittingly threatens the unique relationship between Pablo and Marianela, whose physical features are far from society's ideal. Although he promises to love her forever, Pablo feels pressured to marry his cousin Florentina. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Benito Perez Galdos's Marianela is a classic of Spanish literature reimagined for modern readers

Biografía del autor

Benito Pérez Galdós (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1843-Madrid, 1920) contaba treinta años y solo había publicado tres novelas cuando inició los Episodios nacionales. Bachiller en Artes en Tenerife, se trasladó en 1862 a Madrid para estudiar Derecho y se integró rápidamente en la vida cultural de la capital, cultivando amistades, asistiendo al Ateneo, participando en tertulias, siguiendo los estrenos teatrales y, a partir de 1865, escribiendo en la prensa, con algún viaje al extranjero y el abandono final de los estudios en tiempos de la Revolución de 1868. En ese período se fragua su primera novela, La fontana de oro, publicada en 1870. Después, y durante más de un lustro, lo absorberían las dos primeras series de los Episodios (1873-1879), tras las cuales abandona la novela histórica para dedicarse, durante casi veinte años, a novelar lo contemporáneo, y regresar a aquella en el cambio de siglo.