Tag: Our Friend Manso

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Our Friend Manso: the education of Manso

Our Friend Manso Benito Pérez Galdós Translation by Robert Russell Columbia University Press, 1987 ISBN 0-231-0604-7Previous posts on Our Friend Manso: I do not exist: on Manso’s special status The education novel: from a “simple and pleasant story” to instruction Female characters and the education of women: searching for the golden mean The same perverse […]

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Our Friend Manso: the education novel

All quotes are from the 1987 Columbia University Press edition, translation by Robert Russell. So how does an author approach writing a novel “dealing with the great subject matter of Education”? One of the reasons the author chose Máximo Manso’s “simple and pleasant story” to buy involves Manso’s role as a professor who studies and […]

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Our Friend Manso: I do not exist

Our Friend Manso Benito Pérez Galdós Translation by Robert Russell Columbia University Press, 1987 ISBN 0-231-0604-7 I do not exist. And just in case some untrusting, stubborn, ill-meaning person should refuse to believe what I say so plainly, or should demand some sort of sworn testimony before believing it—I swear, I solemnly swear that I […]