Tristana (Nyrb Classics) - Softcover

Benito Perez Galdos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590177657 ISBN 13: 9781590177655

Publisher: NYRB Classics, 2014

Synopsis

The tale of a high-spirited, ambitious young woman or man breaking free from stifling provincial constraints to pursue a life of independence this is a staple of the novel. In Tristana the great Spanish novelist Benito Pérez Galdós disconcertingly reverses the formula. His beautiful and brilliant and very winning heroine breaks free from a perverse and imprisoning relationship to a womanizing older man, supposed by all to be her father.  But after a terrible stroke of misfortune, she retreats either out of timidity or, perhaps, simply because confinement has its own power to charm. Tristana, here in an exceptionally fine and fluent new English rendering by Margaret Jull Costa, is an unequaled exploration of the tragedy of human desire.

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Review:

[Pérez Galdós s] prophetic gift for singling out those issues that were bound to transcend and outlast his own milieu was equaled only by his knack for keeping them controversial and alive in his fiction by refusing to take a clear-cut position on them.

--(Hispanic Review)

Galdós immersed himself in the realities of his day and recorded them accurately.

(Symposium Magazine) --Hispanic Review

About the Author:

BENITA PÉREZ GALDÓS (1843 1920) is considered the greatest Spanish writer after Cervantes. He published a vast number of novels, plays, and collections of short stories, and is known for his thoroughly researched historical fiction. Tristana and other books of his were adapted for the screen by the great surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel.

MARGARET JULL COSTA is a translator of Spanish and Portuguese literature and poetry, and has translated the works of José Saramago, Javier Marías, and Jóse Maria de Eça de Queirós. She has won many prizes, including the PEN Translation Prize, and in 2013, was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in the U.K.

About this edition

• Publisher: NYRB Classics
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1590177657
• ISBN 13: 9781590177655
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288