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Fernando Fernán Gómez as Don Rodrigo de Arista Potestad in The GrandfatherMovie based on the novel by Benito Pérez Galdós (1897) and his stage play (1904) of the same name. Continuing with my sort-of-biweekly foreign movie posts for this year… For more foreign movies, check out Caroline’s World Cinema Series 2012 and Richard’s monthly Foreign […]
Torquemada by Benito Pérez Galdós Translation by Frances M. López-Morillas New York: Columbia University Press (1986), Hardcover ISBN: 0231062281 / 9780231062282The Torquemada novels: 1. Torquemada at the Stake (1889) 2. Torquemada on the Cross (1893) 3. Torquemada in Purgatory (1894) 4. Torquemada and Saint Peter (1895) I am going to tell about the journey to […]
I had planned on reading the Torquemada novels by Benito Pérez Galdós when The Neglected Books Page posted on one of my favorite novels: Fortunata and Jacinta. In that novel, the reader meets Francisco Torquemada, namesake of Ferdinand and Isabella’s inquisitor general. Dr. Rhian Davies, Director of the Pérez Galdós Editions Project, has provided a […]
Ramon Casas “La Madeleine” (1892) I seem to have misplaced a week of my life…probably the combination of a brutal head cold and long stressful work days. In trying to get caught up on what others have posted I found The Neglected Books Page‘s comments on Fortunata and Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós, calling it […]