La correspondencia de Emilia Pardo Bazán con Galdós abarca los mejores años creativos de la vida de ambos, entre 1883 y 1915. Se trata de la recopilación de las cartas, conocidas hasta el momento, enviadas por Pardo Bazán a Galdós, ordenadas cronológicamente y acompañadas de una aproximación a la figura de la escritora coruñesa y el relato esencial del amor y la amistad entre ambos autores. Literatura y vida literaria, intrigas académicas, discusiones y “piques” entre creadores desfilan por estas páginas, pero sobre todo amor, amistad, admiración y confianza entre dos genios de su tiempo que se amaron a pesar del “mundo necio, que prohíbe estas cosas; a Moisés que las prohíbe también; a la realidad, que nos encadena; a la vida que huye; a los angelitos del cielo, que se creen los únicos felices… Felices, nosotros. ¡Ay!”. (Emilia Pardo Bazán, 28 de septiembre de 1889)
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.
