Halma

Por Benito Pérez Galdós

Halma es una novela excelente, teñida de un humorismo muy sutil, delicioso, con descripciones y diálogos acertadísimos y personajes llenos de interés. Escrita en octubre de 1895, inmediatamente después de “Nazarín”. En ella Galdós prolonga el tema del sacerdote vagabundo y desinteresado.

Halma es el nombre de una mujer aristócrata, viuda de un conde alemán, que con su fortuna planea crear un centro de beneficencia para pobres en Pedralba, una de su propiedades. Para ello cuenta con Nazarín, a quien invita a incorporarse al proyecto. Forma parte de la serie de novelas que sobre la caridad y la espiritualidad cristiana y católica escribió Galdós a continuación del ciclo Torquemada, y que iniciada con “Angel Guerra” culminaría con “Misericordia”.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Benito Pérez Galdós
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 12 mar 2016
• ISBN: 9788892567832

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.