Juan Martín el empecinado

Por Benito Pérez Galdós

Juan Martín el Empecinado es la novena novela de la primera serie de los Episodios Nacionales de Benito Pérez Galdós. Narra las peripecias de Gabriel de Araceli, huérfano gaditano, ambientadas en la época de la Guerra de Independencia entre España y Francia. Esta entrega se centra en las aventuras de Gabriel entre las filas de los guerrilleros comandados por Juan Martín el Empecinado, describiendo de modo exhaustivo la forma de vida en la guerrilla y los diferentes tipos humanos que en ella participaron.

Al salir de Cádiz, Gabriel, que ya es oficial en el ejército regular, es destinado a apoyar a una partida de guerrilleros comandados por Vicente Sardina. Deja a Inés y Amaranta en Cifuentes, donde ésta posee una casa familiar. En las filas de la guerrilla conoce a pintorescos y recios soldados, como el terrible Antón Trijueque, antiguo sacerdote que se echó al monte para luchar contra los franceses.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Benito Pérez Galdós
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 19 mar 2016
• ISBN: 9788892574557

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.