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Torment, by Pérez Galdós. A Spanish classic, by a novelist who has been called Spain's Balzac; published in the U.S. for the first time (TIME...
Torment, by Pérez Galdós. A Spanish classic, by a novelist who has been called Spain's Balzac; published in the U.S. for the first time (TIME...
Torment, by Pérez Galdós. A Spanish classic, by a novelist who has been called Spain's Balzac; published in the U.S. for the first time (TIME...
Torment is no longer than the average lending-library time killer, but it gets more said about the human condition than many a contemporary novelist gives forth in his entire output. For Author Pérez Galdós is bold enough to use the fine old materials of fiction as if he had just discovered them: love and lust, generosity and greed, envy and charity, understanding and pettiness. Poor Amparo is no figure in a Spanish soap opera; she is the universal woman who has sinned, under pressure of her own generosity and momentary passion, and is willing...
...Story. After an abortive try at suicide, Amparo finally confesses to Agustin, not even dreaming that he will have her now. And Agustin, a man of convention, says he won't. But his heart says yes, and the heart wins. Yet, as Author Pérez Galdós does things, this is no commonplace happy ending. It is an end to anguish achieved by a cleansing of guilt on Amparo's part, by the courage on Agustin's to dismiss the sneers of his narrow world. An old story, but Torment shows how good...