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Benito Pérez Galdós
Realism
1888
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Benito Pérez Galdós
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The story
A dismissed civil servant walks Madrid looking for work while his family pretends nothing has changed: bureaucracy as a form of humiliation.
About the author
Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920) wrote nineteenth-century Spain street by street, and is the greatest Spanish novelist after Cervantes.
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