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An aging, self-regarding gentleman spends prolonged hours at a dying friend's bedside while maneuvering family entanglements, last requests, and his own conscience. Intimate domestic scenes alternate with lively sketches of urban life, revealing petty ambitions, religious ritual, and the hypocrisies of respectable society. Moments of comic absurdity and sudden lucidity at the deathbed expose competing motives and moral contradictions among relatives, servants, and neighbors. Through close observation and ironic distance, the narrative maps social rituals, neighborhood gossip, and the routines by which reputation, charity, and self-interest are negotiated in a crowded city setting.

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Title: Torquemada en la cruz

Author: Benito Pérez Galdós

Release date: June 6, 2017 [eBook #54861]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: Spanish

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TORQUEMADA EN LA CRUZ


NOVELAS ESPAÑOLAS CONTEMPORÁNEAS
POR
B. PÉREZ GALDÓS

 



TORQUEMADA EN LA CRUZ


10.000

MADRID

SUCESORES DE HERNANDO

Calle del Arenal, núm. 11.

1916