Los personajes recurrentes en las novelas contemporáneas de Benito Pérez Galdós

Abstract

This thesis proposes as a goal to defend the true value of the so called recurrent characters within the contemporary novels by Galdós, considering their qualities as world configuration elements, cohesive about his novelistic production as well. Thus, these novels are treated as a whole with factual links. In the same way like Balzac did, the fact certain figures show up again in several non-serial novels is a resource which the Spanish author used in order to create verisimilitude, since they intend to provoke an autonomous world delusion. Furthermore, it is pursued to show that they are real self-governing characters, for backbone the novel through their reappearance plus parallel plots outlining, into they live and develop themselves with idiosyncrasy voice and distinctive complexity as well. It is also an aim to reflect in these same terms how much functionality and value from these characters is by defining them in their characteristics, building, evolution and typology. Thereby, it is pretended to explain both meaning and sense of continuous use of this technique throughout this author’s novelistic regarding his whole works an related to the Spanish and universal literature too. A so analysed and wide spread writer like Galdós deserves a constant vindication –in the recent year 2020 was celebrated his passing one hundred anniversary‒ because the extent, richness and quality of his production possesses enough items so that renewed perspectives about more works related may be arisen. The engaged methodology depends on providing a theoretical frame, which consists in offering straight and preterit antecedents as well. In addition, theoretical and critics foundation is provided about the novel figure. To that end, it is presented a prospect which begins from significant critics and authors contributions. Next, every aspect concerning value, characterization, functionality or typology is attended. It is employed an analysis model developed by design to this research and adds two relevant benefits: in the first place, all those aspects which ought to be considered for this thesis aims are retrieved by labelling them through a neat, attainable manner; secondly, it is provided an interesting information source, available for future efforts inside this branch of studies. Subsequently, after all sections from this work related to comparative tasks develop, partial conclusions redactions are supplied, that ease by themselves –thanks to the needed reflexion and synthesis‒ this thesis final conclusions, both final and logical stage which must conclude the previous steps concatenation offered. It has been possible to conclude that the analysis model has been revealed as useful in most of its elements, suitable as methodology of information recovery and adjusted to the work goal, provided it has permitted to process in an ideal form the corpus for a critical interpretation. In regard to the achieved results, these ones have been mostly successful, since they have allowed to check how the characters’ reappearance dynamics was purposely used by Galdós with two basic aesthetic-literary intentions. On one hand, it permitted to extend the novel concept to the literary universe scope, in the line of Balzac, although the Canary novelist incorporated a decisive verticality dimension. On the other hand, this universe foundation rewards the experienced Galdós’ reader with a reading additional level that allows him/her an access to implicit apprehensions. In summary, the thesis has taken interest to the extent it has served to portray the real significance of this creative mechanism in a similar way that favoured devices and components in the reappearance characters.