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Emilia Pardo Bazán publica Insolación cuando ya había sido reconocida como gran novelista tras el éxito de las narraciones de Los Pazos de Ulloa y La Madre Naturaleza sus conocimientos sobre la novela europea la llevan entonces a la tribuna del Ateneo y comienza a enviar crónicas de su viaje a Italia a El Imparcial. Insolación es, según su autora, un estudio episódico. El de la Marquesa de Andrade será el inicio de una fase de narración más espiritualista en el sostenido realismo de Emilia Pardo Bazán. La premisa naturalista, al contrario que en las obras anteriores, esta ausente en esta novela; la presencia del mundo exterior es mas relevante y esta subordinada al mundo intimo de las criaturas literarias. Esto se plasma en el empleo de una inusitada y más compleja técnica narrativa.
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.
