Memorias de un cortesano de 1815

Por Benito Pérez Galdós

"Memorias de un cortesano de 1815" (1875) es la segunda novela de la segunda serie de los Episodios Nacionales de Benito Pérez Galdós. Narra el ascenso social de Juan de Pipaón, un arribista que llega a formar parte de la camarilla de Fernando VII.

Juan Bragas, presentado en El equipaje del rey José como un alavés emigrado a Madrid, paisano y amigo del protagonista de la serie Salvador Monsalud, es un pobre covachuelista que tiene el único objetivo de triunfar socialmente. Tras cambiar su apellido a "de Pipaón", recurriendo a su lugar de origen para darse bombo, entra al servicio de un aristócrata miembro del gobierno fernandino. Su don de gentes y su predisposición a las corruptelas lo hacen subir en la estimación de su jefe y le consiguen sucesivos ascensos.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Benito Pérez Galdós
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 22 mar 2016
• ISBN: 9788892578234

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.