Si quieres saber cómo es la Nochebuena en el Infierno, en el Purgatorio, en el Limbo o en el Cielo, empieza a leer. Como bien saben los lectores de Dickens, la noche del 24 de diciembre es propicia al encuentro con espíritus. La protagonista de esta Fantasía pasará la Nochebuena descubriendo Infierno, Purgatorio, Limbo y Cielo, de la mano de un misterioso embozado, poeta romántico y suicida. Los lectores han dicho... «Volver a Emilia Pardo Bazán es muy gratificante, no solo por su estilo sobrio y descriptivo, sino por lo que significó como mujer de su época.» «Aunque es una obra secundaria en el repertorio literario de la autora el relato está escrito de forma fenomenal. El lenguaje es rico y elegante. Me ha gustado.»
Author
Emilia Pardo Bazán was a Galician author and scholar from Galicia. She is known for bringing naturalism to Spanish literature, for her detailed descriptions of reality, and for her role in feminist literature of her era. Her first novel, Pascual López (1879), is a simple exercise in fantasy of no remarkable promise, though it contains good descriptive passages of romance. It was followed by a more striking story, Un viaje de novios (1881), in which a discreet attempt was made to introduce into Spain the methods of French realism. The book caused a sensation among the literary cliques, and this sensation was increased by the appearance of another naturalistic tale, La tribuna (1885), wherein the influence of Émile Zola is unmistakable. Meanwhile, the writer's reply to her critics was issued under the title of La cuestion palpitante (1883), a clever piece of rhetoric, but of no special value as regards criticism or dialectics. The best of Emilia Pardo Bazán's work is embodied in Los pazos de Ulloa (1886), the painfully exact history of a decadent aristocratic family. A sequel, with the significant title of La madre naturaleza (1887), marks a further advance in the path of naturalism. She was also a journalist, essayist and critic. She died in Madrid.
