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Dona Perfecta (El Libro De Bolsillo)
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In Spanish, annotated edition. Witness to the devastating effect of the religious problem in Spain -more acute during the first years of the the Bourbon Restoration (1875)- and the terrible clash between the Europeanized, liberal, egalitarian spirit and the traditionalist, provincial spirit, that opposed with ferocious fanaticism any new ideas that might challenge their cherished beliefs, Benito Perez Galdos believed that religiousness exceeded the personal questions and was tearing apart families, not to mention the entire nation. He thus set to write Doña Perfecta: a warning cry about a theocratical and mummified society in which the self-interest of the Church (Don Inocencio) caused it to work with the feudal landowners (Doña Perfecta) to stir up local political bosses and guerrilla leaders (Caballuco), who in turn lead the labradores and peasants (el tío Paso Largo, Frasquito González, José Esteban Romanero) to slaughter. If Juan Valera's Pepita Jiménez can be considered the epitome of the idealistic Spanish XIX century novel, Doña Perfecta seems to be Perez Galdos' answer or rebuttal.
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Dona Perfecta
Benito Perez Galdos
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What! Have you never heard of Caballuco?" said the countryman, amazed at the crass ignorance of Dona Perfecta's nephew. "He is a very brave man, a fine rider, and the best connoisseur of horses in all the surrounding country. We think a great deal of him in Orbajosa; and he is well worthy of it. Just as you see him, he is a power in the place, and the governor of the province takes off his hat to him.
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What! Have you never heard of Caballuco? said the countryman, amazed at the crass ignorance of Dona Perfecta's nephew. "He is a very brave man, a fine rider, and the best connoisseur of horses in all the surrounding country. We think a great deal of him in Orbajosa; and he is well worthy of it. Just as you see him, he is a power in the place, and the governor of the province takes off his hat to him."
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Dona Perfecta.......2006-12-07
Pepe Rey has, by order of his father, left his home to visit the small town of Orbajosa where his aunt, Dona Perfecta, lives. Pepe has recently graduated as an engineer and is a man of the new generation, inspired by Darwin, German philosophy, and the miracles technology promises. He has little time and less inclination for the stoic, small-minded Catholic zealotry of his aunt and of Orbajosa in general. This causes conflict within his family which has terrible consequences as, later, Orbajosa becomes embroiled within a terrible uprising against the Spanish government.
Galdos writes achingly well. Of his many strengths, the most immediately arresting is his capacity for description. The opening chapters of the novel spend some time describing the major characters in impressive detail. This is a narrative device that could, in the hands of a lesser writer, spell the doom of the novel, for nothing disrupts flow more than excessive description, particularly at the beginning. Yet with Galdos, there is never a sense of tangential exposition; no, we are shown the heart and soul of Pepe, of Rosario, of Dona Perfecta.
Consider this stunning paragraph, describing Rosario: 'Rosario was a girl of delicate and fragile appearance, that revealed a tendency to pensive melancholy. In her delicate and pure countenance there was something of the soft, pearly pallor which most novelists attribute to their heroines, and without which sentimental varnish it appears that no Enriquieta or Julia can be interesting. But what chiefly distinguished Rosario was that her face expressed so much sweetness and modesty that the absence of the perfections it lacked was not observed. This is not to say that she was plain; but, on the other hand, it is true that it would be an exaggeration to call her beautiful in the strictest meaning of the word. The real beauty of Dona Perfecta's daughter consisted in a species of transparency, different from that of pearl, alabaster, marble, or any of the other substances used in descriptions of the human countenance; a species of transparency through which the inmost depths of her soul were clearly visible; depths not cavernous and gloomy, like those of the sea, but like those of a clear and placid river. But the material was wanting there for a complete personality. The channel was wanting, the banks were wanting. The vast wealth of her spirit overflowed, threatening to wash away the narrow borders.'. This quote, while long, illustrates Galdos' illuminating ability with words. Is there anything more commonly described in a novel than that of the beautiful female? And yet Galdos is able to make what could be trite and turns it into something sublime. The other characters benefit from equally rich, evocative description.
At first, the town of Orbajosa welcomes Pepe. He is shown around, and introduced to, the various inhabitants of the town. Dona Perfecta, by reputation as 'perfect' as her name suggests, loves the societal weight that her learned, handsome nephew is able to supply. One of her first guests is Don Inocencio, the town canon. And this is where the troubles begin.
Pepe is intelligent, but so is Don Inocencio. It is here where Galdos raises the stakes, so to speak. Pepe is rational and calculating; he dislikes the sheep-like belief of Orbajosa's Catholic population. As Don Inocencio says, '...the brain, a place for breeding maggots.'; he is echoing the beliefs of his flock, of himself, of the town. From Pepe's response, which is lengthy, I shall quote a snippet: 'But it is not our fault if science overturns day after day the vain idols of the past: its superstitions, its sophisms, its innumerable fables--beautiful, some of them, ridiculous others--for in the vineyard of the Lord grow both good fruit and bad.'. As can be seen, Inocencio and Pepe are at loggerheads, there is no real middle ground where they can meet.
Throughout the first half of the novel, Pepe and Inocencio argue. Soon, Dona Perfecta, as well as other members of the town, become involved with the argument. Pepe is resolutely against the beliefs of Orbajosa, while from their point of view, Pepe is a young upstart without proper respect for the customs and heart of the town. Rosario serves as the prize - Pepe is in love with her, but Dona Perfecta, her mother, comes to adamantly detest the man. In a grand irony, she opposes the very marriage she so forcibly arranged.
A large portion of the anti- and pro-Catholic arguments deal with the advent of technology, and the 'immoral' view put forth by Charles Darwin. 130 years after the publication of Dona Perfecta, we know that in many ways, Darwinism and evolution and technology have 'won'. The Catholic church do not fear or abhor technology in all its forms, and nor do they automatically oppose philosophy, Germanic or otherwise. It could be argued that the church has shifted its focus away from what is presented in this novel, which is one of Dona Perfecta's two great weaknesses. Both Pepe and Inocencio are intelligent and present compelling arguments, but it is only Inocencio's which seem dated and irrelevant.
Halfway through the novel, when Orbajosa as a whole considers Pepe almost as bad as the devil, the novel changes tack, to become a study of rebellion and uprising. Pepe disappears for almost the remainder of the novel, and we are left to deal with the very people whose sympathies we cannot share. Because Dona Perfecta et al appear ridiculous due to their adherence to their (now) outdated views, it is difficult to care as they struggle against the government and begin to rebel.
Which is the novel's second great flaw. It is hardly Galdos' fault that the world has changed in a century and a half. But the argument can be put forth that this novel is so dated as to be a period piece of little value past that of novelty.
The novel's ending, for all the confused, irrelevant second half, is melancholy and affecting in its sobriety. Due to Galdos' superb ability to draw his characters in such detail, we are genuinely saddened at the overwhelmingly depressing finale. Nobody, whether Catholic or technologist, sympathetic or distasteful, comes away happy and satisfied. His closing comment is immensely fitting, 'This is all we have to say for the present concerning persons who seem, but are not good.'
Galdos is an extremely talent writer, and one who is thought of very highly in Spain. Again and again, while reading, I was struck by the sheer beauty and truth in his description of people and place, and in his analysis of thought and emotion. That Dona Perfecta, the novel, has aged poorly is a difficult criticism, and is almost the only negative I can think to lay at its feet. Yet it is also such a huge, terrible flaw that it becomes difficult to recommend the novel to anyone who is not already a fan of his writing. Galdos is an amazing, essential Spanish author, but read something else of his.
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La hipocresía personificada.......2004-02-06
Esto es un novelón por el que no pasan los años. Doña Perfecta es una hipócrita que le pone a todos carita de santa, pero que de verdad tiene más abajo que arriba. Toda la historia transcurre en el pueblo imaginario de Orbajosa, un pueblo de adocenados y palurdos orgullosos de serlo. Cuando el sobrino de Doña Perfecta, un ingeniero de la gran ciudad, culto, leído y educado, llega a Orbajosa a casarse con su prima y en consecuencia a destruir los tejemanejes de algunos personajes secundarios, se arma una gran trifulca. Pero en consonancia con el carácter de Doña Perfecta, la guerra no empieza a las bravas, sino solapadamente, cual cisco que arde poquito a poco. Los acontecimientos que siguen cambiarán de manera radical a casi todos los protagonistas.
El capítulo final (33) resume de manera perfecta la historia:
"Esto se acabó. Es cuanto por ahora podemos decir de las personas que parecen buenas y no lo son".
Aunque Galdós escribió esta novela hace ya dos siglos, el lenguaje es clarom asequible, y el retrato psicológico es no sólo universal, sino que trasciende culturas.
Dona Perfecta-Benito Perez Galdos.......2003-07-28
Galdos fue un autor dominante de literatura Espanola del siglo
diez y nueve. Ningun autor tenia su alcance o gozo de tanta
popularidad durante su periodo. Su obra de la mas profunda vista
de la realidad en su pais. Es autor en valor comparable al
Ingles "Charles Dickens" . Europa ha impuesto una negligencia
extrana a la literatura que merecio en el mundo literario de su tiempo. La novela es una producta del siglo diez y nueve. Durante esta siglo la clase intermedia economica desarollo mucho.
Dona Perfecta es una modela de la virtud pero falta de la caridad. Su crueldad es enorme en cuestiones religiosas y puede cometer crimenes para su credo que hubiera condenado en otras.
Nunca duda que tiene razon en todo que hace.
Los linros de Galdos son documentos humanos en tiempo y en espacio. El conflicto basico en las novelas es entre la realidad y la ilusion.
La edad en que escribio y vivio, Benito Perez Galdos:
a) Escribio durante El Siglo de diez y nueve.
b) Escribio con realismo.
c) Recibio su educacion en Las Palmas.
d) Era un liberal.
La vida de Benito Perez Galdos:
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b) Nacio en 1843.
c) Durante este siglo, Espana tuvo un conflicion de politico.
d) Alfonso duodecimo era el rey de Espana.
e) Escribio algunas novelas de politicas
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Dona perfecta, Misericordia / Mrs. Perfect, Mercifulness
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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.
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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03
Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.
Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19
Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.
Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09
There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.
For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.
Very Interesting.......2007-03-07
It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.
History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10
Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.
I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.
Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.
Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.
I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.
This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.
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Tad Williams began his Otherland series with the massive City of Golden Shadow and continues it with the equally hefty River of Blue Fire. Williams says it will require four (big) books to tell his complex, multithreaded tale, and at the rate that the plot of this second novel moves, readers will see what he means. Not that the book is a slow read; in fact, River is as much a suspenseful page-turner as the first book.
As River opens, we join up again with the ragtag bunch of searchers trapped in an astoundingly detailed and frightfully dangerous virtual world known as Otherland. Lurking in disguise among the group is the brutally vicious serial killer Dread, trying to find information that will help him overthrow his Grail Brotherhood masters. The group follows a ubiquitous river through world after world, unable to go offline, and subject to the increasingly terrifying certainty that things in this supposedly virtual place are all too real. Meanwhile, Paul Jonas, an amnesic (but somehow pivotal) character fleeing from two sinister beings, finds more and more of his memory as he does his own Huck Finn river trip. As in the first novel, each new world that the characters enter, from Paleolithic Ice Age to something suspiciously like Oz, is fully realized and completely unpredictable.
Williams is a master at parceling out information to the reader in dribs and drabs, which is frustrating yet tantalizing, like a particularly good computer game. When the group is split up and the adventure divides further, the reader senses the author as a puppet master, following some incredibly complex flows of information. The best course is just to hang on and enjoy Williams's deft characterizations, lush descriptions, and wildly divergent plot. If you've ever been white-water rafting, you'll recognize the feeling. --Therese Littleton
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Tad Williams presents...
The mass market edition of Volume Two...
"A powerful, near-future cyberthriller."--Booklist
"Williams proves himself as adept at writing science fiction as he is writing fantasy....Fascinating." --Publishers Weekly
"An exciting addition to the growing virtual reality literature."--Library Journal
* A bestselling author--New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, London Times, Publishers Weekly
Customer Reviews:
Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
After our intrepid group of investigators get deeper into the
conspiracy, they discover the vast, artificial computer network that is
involved. When they dive in, from their various locations, they find a
serious problem. They are not able to disconnect from their
environment, and are now on a quest to stay alive.
They meet more people on the way, but they do not know that a
psychopathic assassin is among them, with more control of the
environment, and an affinity for machines.
Pretty bad compared to the others.......2007-04-18
As a person who is in the middle of reading book three I can say that this is the weakest of them. This may sound strange, but I really recommend to only skim over any chapter that involves Orlando and Fredricks on the river with the Chief (trying to keep it vague to prevent spoilers). It's 4 or 5 chapters worth of absolutely boring content. I can't really even remember what it was about. All of it but the last chapter of the story line you should skip because it's a lot like Huckleberry Finn, but they never leave the boat and nothing interesting happens.
I almost lost hope and almost never went onto number three. I'd give the other books 5/5. This one really gets a three and a half, but there's no option.
Possibly the most interesting of the Otherland Books.......2006-08-28
In this book we finally get to see the Otherland network in some significant detail. I felt like many of the characters and themes were developed interestingly, and the worlds within the network at compelling. At the same time, it was a little frustrating because by the end of this volume I still had very little idea of what exactly was going on. Williams was very stingy with clues in this book, so while the story progresses, don't expect to have any better understanding of what's going on behind the scenes. You can only guess (and probably incorrectly) at the connections between the various themes and characters. Nevertheless, some of the best adventures and most interesting worlds (Bug World, Oz, the Kitchen, Abydos, London, Xanadu, Aerodromia, Venice...) appear hear.
Otherland....Greatest Sci-Fi Series of All Time!.......2005-09-12
I can't tell you how much I have enjoyed reading the Otherland series. In my opinion, it is the greatest epic novel ever written, even better than Lord of the Rings. I particularly liked that it was a book that was relevant to our times; I think a lot of what Tad Williams wrote may come true in the not to distant future. I simply could not put it down. Although some have complained here that he bounced around too much from story line to story line or that he could have wrapped it up in just one or two novels, I think those readers are just lazy or are part of the "I want it now" generation. I really could have cared less if he ever ended the series; I enjoyed it that much.
I have been a fan of Stephen King, Tolkien, and Asimov, and have read almost all the books they wrote. However, Tolkien and Asimov are dead and King seems to have got tired of writing the kinds of books we all loved. Anyway, I was looking for someone to fill the void and ran across the Otherland series. Thanks to Tad Williams for filling the void!
Enjoy the variety of many different VR simulations in an exciting tale!.......2005-07-07
In this second installment in the Otherland series (which is meant to read as one LONG single novel) the plot is uncovered to some degree through the travels of the characters through the Otherland Network, which they are starting to understand in bits and pieces. While some people seem to be bored by the characters adventures through numerous and wildly varying simulations and seem to just want resolution to the story, I enjoy all the different lands and experiences the travelers go through and believe that Williams is the kind of writer that does not include a lot of frivolous things in his stories. Even parts of the story such as the giant kitchen land with humanesque utensils and foods helps to shed some light on the workings of the network as well as lead up to important steps toward resolution (remember the freezer).
Basically, you've got to read these books for the right reasons. They were authored and sold as works to shine a light on what might be possible in the not too distant future with virtual reality becoming more and more a part of our lives. These books are so popular because people are intrigued by the possiblities of VR and so it is not surprising that Williams includes a lot of different circumstances for the reader to appreciate what would be possible in a future such as this. Dont complain that you have to read through another chapter in another simulation, enjoy it!!
Highly recommended.
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4 Book set
Product Description
Volumes 1 thru 4 in Tad William's Otherland series. City of Golden Shadow, River of Blue Fire, Mountain of Black Glass, & Sea of Silver Light.
Books:
- Double Tap (Paul Madriani Novels)
- Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture (New Interventions in Art History)
- Flint the King (Dragonlance: Preludes)
- Fortunata Y Jacinta (2 Volume Set)
- Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit
- From Russia with Tough Love: Pavel's Kettlebell Workout for a Femme Fatale
- Fuel-Injected Dreams: A Novel
- Henry and Mudge and the Wild Goose Chase (Henry and Mudge Ready-to-Read)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
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