Mariucha

Por Benito Pérez Galdós

Mariucha es una obra de teatro en cinco actos, escrita por Benito Pérez Galdós y estrenada el 16 de julio de 1903 en el Teatro Eldorado, de Barcelona.

La obra centra el devenir de una familia perteneciente a la más abolenga aristocracia, que por avatares de la vida, está al borde de la ruina, hasta el punto de verse abocados a vender su Palacio de Alto-Rey. La solución a tan dramática situación pasa por la boda del hijo varón, Césareo, con la hija de unos burgueses, muy adinerados, pero sin una gota de nobleza en su sangre. La actitud de Mariucha, la hija, es opouesta a esta situación, y se apresta a trabajar para vivir - mediante la compraventa de productos para la mujer. Esta opción consigue la feroz crítica del resto de la familia.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Benito Pérez Galdós
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 10 may 2016
• ISBN: 9786050435269

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.