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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...Torment, by Perez Galdos, A 19th century Spanish classic by a novelist who has been called Spain's Balzac; published in the U.S. for the first time (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 10, 1953 | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

...congratulate you on your very fine color spread and article on Georges Rouault [TIME, July 27] ... His pictures portray such great feeling, intense emotion and torment within the soul . . . Rouault once said, "Some day I hope to paint a Christ so moving that tLose who see it will be converted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 10, 1953 | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good News from Spain | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good News from Spain | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

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