La princesa y el granuja

Escrito por Benito Pérez Galdós

Narrado por Rafael Baena Zapatero

"La princesa y el granuja" es una de las irrupciones de Benito Pérez Galdós en lo fantástico. Dejando a un lado el humor de otras obras, aunque no una fina ironía, el autor nos ofrece su propia versión de Pigmalión a través de Pacorrito Migajas, un niño pobre que vive en la calle y está perdidamente enamorado de una muñeca que ve en el escaparate de una tienda cercana a la Puerta del Sol de Madrid. A partir de esta sencilla premisa, el cuento nos introduce en un mundo fantástico poblado por juguetes a través de una mirada tierna no exenta de crudeza. De hecho, la resolución del relato nos muestra al Galdós más inquietante y oscuro. Si alguna vez pensó que Benito Pérez Galdós era un autor muy serio y antiguo, sus cuentos le sorprenderán.

"La princesa y el granuja" is one of the irruptions of Benito Pérez Galdós in fantasy worlds. Leaving aside the humor of other works, although not a fine irony, the author offers us his own version of Pygmalion through Pacorrito Migajas, a poor boy who lives on the street and is madly in love with a doll he sees in the window of a store near the Puerta del Sol in Madrid. From this simple premise, the story introduces us to a fantastic universe populated by toys through a tender look that is not without harshness. In fact, the resolution of the story shows us Galdós at his most disturbing and darkest. If you ever thought that Benito Pérez Galdós was a very serious and old-fashioned author, his tales will surprise you.

Diseño de portada: David Rubiales.

Cover art design: David Rubiales.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Encrucijada Editorial, S.L.U.
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 11 nov 2023
• ISBN: 9798868737084

Benito Pérez Galdós

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.