Continuing with discussion of Angel Guerra by Benito Pérez Galdós, done mostly through footnotes so far. I’ll continue the trend in this post, but first a note about the story… In the previous post on the book I ended with the death of Angel’s daughter, Ción. By the end of Part One of the novel […]
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I seem to be reviewing the translation of Angel Guerra through footnotes, and the strange thing is I’m completely fine with that. Previous entries include Benito Pérez Galdós and his mother Hitting the jackpot on cross-references in Galdós novels More fun with footnotes in Angel Guerra, naturally I’ve said very little about the story so […]
There’s a footnote on page 95 of Angel Guerra (Pérez, Galdós Benito. A Translation of “Angel Guerra” by Benito Pérez Galdós. Lewiston (N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1990.), translated by Karen O. Austin, where Angel signals he is supporting his seven-year-old daughter’s anarchy instead of imposing order, as the governess has requested. Angel’s phrase, translated, is Let […]
One of the many remarkable qualities of Galdós is his use of characters across many of his novels. I’ve mentioned one of these repeating characters before, the Madrid doctor Alejandro Miquis. I’m reading Angel Guerra (Pérez, Galdós Benito. A Translation of “Angel Guerra” by Benito Pérez Galdós. Lewiston [N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1990.), translated by […]
This post and at least one more will be based on footnotes in the translation of Angel Guerra I’m currently reading (Pérez, Galdós Benito. A Translation of “Angel Guerra” by Benito Pérez Galdós. Lewiston [N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1990.). The translation is by Karen O. Austin. I updated my post on Doña Perfecta with this […]