Raquel Gutiérrez Sebastián. En los albores de la novela rural. El sabor de la tierruca de José María de Pereda. Vigo, Academia del Hispanismo, Publicaciones Académicas. Biblioteca de Escrituras Profanas, 72.

Abstract

This article comments on the work of Professor Raquel Gutiérrez Sebastián, who published a book exclusively on the Peredian novel El sabor de la tierruca. In the work of the teacher, the subgenre of the Spanish rural novel is pointed out as a relevant aspect, as opposed to the works that paint the urban landscape, such as others by Pereda himself or Benito Pérez Galdós. Each chapter is dedicated to various points: characters, landscape, narrative structure, illustrations, etc., which outline Pereda's mastery in capturing the rural world of his time, a theme, like so many others, that is always universal and timeless.