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In this view, for example, very different criteria would have been employed to analyze the novelist's characterizations of Juan Bragas, a true protagonist, with its independent development as such within two entire volumes, and Benigno Cordero, an important personage, but without a novelistic trajectory of his own.
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Hinterhäuser's special knowledge in this area contributes, as we have noted, important insights into Galdós' characterization, both historical and fictional. Important, as well, is his overall stylistic view from the same vantage-point (pp. 356-369).
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New York: Las Americas Publishing Company, 1967, 222 pages.
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Hans Hinterhäuser, Los «Episodios Nacionales» de Benito Pérez Galdós, trans. José Escobar (Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 1963).
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Antonio Regalado García, Benito Pérez Galdós y la Novela Histórica Española, 1868-1912 (Madrid: Ínsula, 1966).
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«Como 'fuentes' no busca posibles modelos de Galdós (que precisamente quedan, con frecuencia, desatendidos), sino obras históricas posteriores que tratan de la misma época... Ya vemos, por lo tanto, que Galdós 'no se equivoca', que no difiere de los fiadores que Vázquez Arjona presenta. Es cierto. Pero, ¿qué clase de fiadores son éstos?, ¿a qué orientación política pertenecen? (y ¿qué influjo, en este sentido, pudieron haber tenido en el cuadro histórico de los Episodios?), esto, desgraciadamente, no se lo ha preguntado el autor». -Hinterhäuser, pp. 18-19.
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Joaquín Casalduero, Vida y Obra de Galdós (Madrid, 1951).
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Pío Baroja, Memorias (Madrid, 1955), p. 1277.
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See in this same issue «Apostillas...», end of section III. (Editor's note.)
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The history book deals primarily with the level of relief; but unlike the chronicle of bygone ages, modern Historiography reveals no socio-political limitations. It can focus with equal facility upon a regicide or a popular rebellion; but the historian will endeavour, in either case, to stress the level that is historically most significant, and that for which documented evidence is most often available: in the regicide, the king, his immediate party, and the assassin; in the popular rebellion, the leader, his outstanding henchmen, and those who suffer its fury. Everything else, in either reconstruction, is offered as undifferentiated background» (Italics mine) -Rodríguez, p. 40.