Fortunata y Jacinta - Pérez Galdós, Benito

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Résumé :
Los mejores libros jam?s escritos. ?Pero tiene que haber olvido, como tiene que haber muerte. Sin olvido, no habr?a hueco para las ideas y los sentimientos nuevos.?

Fortunata y Jacinta no es ?nicamente la gran novela de referencia del siglo XIX, sino tambi?n una obra fundamental del legado cultural espa?ol en la que Gald?s narra la historia de dos mujeres. Jacinta est? casada con Juanito Santa Cruz, quien le asegura la continuidad de una posici?n social acomodada. No obstante, lejos de conformarse con la seguridad de un hogar burgu?s, ella vive atormentada por las infidelidades de su marido y se siente incapaz, por su propia condici?n de mujer, de hallar una salida a la prisi?n dorada en la que vive. Entre las amantes m?s odiadas de su marido est? Fortunata, una mujer de clase obrera que, a pesar de su situaci?n, parece gozar de aquello que m?s ans?a. Sin embargo, Fortunata tambi?n se siente atrapada, pues su condici?n social le impide legitimar un amor que cree m?s genuino que el impuesto por el matrimonio.

La presente edici?n est? a cargo de los hermanos Mar?a Luisa Sotelo V?zquez y Adolfo Sotelo V?zquez, profesores de literatura espa?ola de la Universidad de Barcelona, cuyo estudio introductorio y aparato de notas acercan al lector a un mundo gobernado por la doble moral.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The best books ever written. But there must be obscurity, just like there has to be death. Without oblivion, there would be no room for new ideas and feelings. Fortunata and Jacinta is not only the great model novel of the 19th century, but also a fundamental work in the Spanish cultural legacy. Jacinta is married to Juanito Santa Cruz, who assures her of a comfortable social position. However, rather than being content with the security of a well-appointed home, she lives tormented by her husband's infidelities, and as a woman she feels incapable of finding an escape from the golden prison she lives in. One of her husband's most despised lovers is Fortunata, a working-class woman who, despite her situation, seems to enjoy that which she most longs for. Nevertheless, Fortunata also feels trapped, because her social condition prevents her from pursuing a love that she believes is more genuine than that of the married couple. This edition is led by siblings Mar?a Luisa Sotelo V?zquez and Adolfo Sotelo V?zquez, professors of Spanish literature at the University of Barcelona, whose introductory study and notes bring the reader closer to a world governed by a double standard.