Evocación antropológica de la novelística de la Condesa de Pardo Bazán

Abstract

Emilia Pardo Bazán and Ramón M. del Valle-Inclán are perhaps the two Galician novelists who provide us with the richest and most profound ethnographical insight in their works. Doña Emilia understood and successfully expresses the intimate complexities of social life from the inside of every-day family life, as she contemplates the micropolitics of rural communities, with their hierarchies and social strategies. In her novels, the economy gains a cultural tone with its virtualities of communication through symbolic elements. Fernández de Rota addresses the anthropological coherence and strength of her best known work and her ability to tune in to the people while describing folklore rigorously. A comparison is then made with the current research of social anthropology in the area, of which she is a forerunner and which her work endows with historical depth.