211
S/Z, pp. 20-21.
212
In French:
Eugénie Grandet, p. 224. |
213
Fiction and the Shape of Belief, p. 66.
214
(Madrid: Gredos, 1970).
215
The Novels of Pérez Galdós: The Concept of Life as Dynamic Process (St. Louis: Washington University Studies, 1954), p. 39.
216
Phenomenology and Literature (West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue Univ. Press, 1977), p. 145.
217
An example would be what might be called «the repulsive kiss of perverted passion» which is given portentous prominence in any number of novels (e.g., at the ends of both Alas' La Regenta and Blasco Ibáñez' Cañas y barro, and in Frank Norris' McTeague).
218
Galdós' notes about his plans for San Pedro (see the Weber article referred to in footnote 4) reveal that he considered relating Torquemada's drunken state on the wedding night to the abnormality of the son who was to be born. This would have been still another Zolaism. (The presence of the detail in the notes is further external evidence that the volumes leading up to San Pedro were also already sketched in 1889. Internal evidence in Hoguera that points forward to Volumes II and III may be found in the long passage in Chapter 2 concerning Torquemada's social metamorphosis, material that has no bearing on the thematic concerns of Volume I).
219
A comparison of this last passage (San Pedro, I, 15) and the final page of Zola's Nana is instructive.
220
Walter J. Pattison, Benito Pérez Galdós (New York: Twayne, 1975), pp. 105-06.