Episodios nacionales I. Bailén

Por Benito Pérez Galdós

Bailén es la cuarta novela de la primera serie de los Episodios Nacionales de Benito Pérez Galdós.
El protagonista, Gabriel, sale del Madrid posterior al 2 de mayo de 1808 con dirección a Andalucía, concretamente Córdoba, donde han llevado a su amada Inés. Gabriel descubre que Inés, forzada a un matrimonio de conveniencia, quiere profesar en un convento de clausura.
Durante el camino se detiene en Bailén, en casa de una familia noble que está preparando a su único hijo varón para unirse al ejército de Castaños en la lucha contra los invasores franceses.
A raíz de ello, Gabriel participará en la Batalla de Bailén, donde se enfrentan los ejércitos español y francés. En Bailén, Galdós se sirve del argumento para relatar con gran exactitud el desarrollo de la batalla, que concluye con una victoria para los españoles.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Linkgua ediciones
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 9 jul 2014
• ISBN: 9788490072387

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.