La mula y el buey: Un cuento de navidad

Escrito por Benito Perez Galdos

Narrado por Rafael Baena Zapatero

"La mula y el buey" es un conmovedor cuento navideño de Benito Pérez Galdós en el que el autor juega con el contraste entre la felicidad de esas fechas, sobre todo para los más pequeños, y el dolor de una familia por la pérdida de su pequeña hija. Una historia triste pero impregnada de ilusión y esperanza cristianas que nos propone acercarnos a quienes viven la Navidad desde la pérdida y la ausencia. El autor combina también con maestría y originalidad un realismo naturalista con elementos sobrenaturales y fantásticos. "La mula y el buey" es un cuento de Navidad y, a la vez, mucho más que un cuento de Navidad.

Diseño de portada: David Rubiales

"La mula y el buey" is a touching Christmas story by Benito Pérez Galdós in which the author plays with the contrast between the happiness of these dates, especially for the little ones, and the pain of a family for the loss of their little daughter. A sad story but impregnated with Christian illusion and hope that proposes us to approach those who live Christmas from the loss and absence. The author also combines with mastery and originality a naturalistic realism with supernatural and fantastic elements. "La mula y el buey" is a Christmas tale and, at the same time, much more than a Christmas tale.

Cover art design: David Rubiales

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Encrucijada Editorial, S.L.U.
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 7 dic 2023
• ISBN: 9798868654343

Benito Perez Galdos

Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) was a Spanish novelist. Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, he was the youngest of ten sons born to Lieutenant Colonel Don Sebastián Pérez and Doña Dolores Galdós. Educated at San Agustin school, he travelled to Madrid to study Law but failed to complete his studies. In 1865, Pérez Galdós began publishing articles on politics and the arts in La Nación. His literary career began in earnest with his 1868 Spanish translation of Charles Dickens’ Pickwick Papers. Inspired by the leading realist writers of his time, especially Balzac, Pérez Galdós published his first novel, La Fontana de Oro (1870). Over the next several decades, he would write dozens of literary works, totaling 31 fictional novels, 46 historical novels known as the National Episodes, 23 plays, and 20 volumes of shorter fiction and journalism. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times without winning, Pérez Galdós is considered the preeminent author of nineteenth century Spain and the nation’s second greatest novelist after Miguel de Cervantes. Doña Perfecta (1876), one of his finest works, has been adapted for film and television several times.