The trace of the family secret in the stories of Emilia Pardo Bazán

Abstract

In a collective article a group of researchers has proved that EPB's paternal grandmother had been murdered by her second husband JRP. Our work focuses on PB's tales and shows that the short story may have taken in the family secret. We especially paid attention to the concealed print of the secret through the mention of the violences perpetrated or through words betraying the presence of a family/familiar ghost, wishing to come out in the fictional text.