Costumbrismo as contempt (about Pereda)

Abstract

This article focuses on costumbrismo, which emerged in the 19th century. For Pereda there is no 19th century novel without costumbrismo. The article makes a claim to this literary current as a movement that reflects the uses and customs, sometimes of the past, other times contemporary; circumstances which circumscribe human reality and shape the individuality of each. Also, the differences and similarities between costumbrismo and other literary movements such as realism and naturalism are compared and extracted. It is concluded that there was costumbrismo as environment in the nineteenth-century realistic and naturalistic novel.