Raquel Gutiérrez Sebastián y Borja Rodríguez Gutiérrez (eds.). “Menéndez Pelayo y la novela del siglo XIX”. Santander: Real Sociedad Menéndez Pelayo, 2009, 240 págs.

Abstract

The book reviewed, edited by Raquel Gutiérrez Sebastián and Borja Rodríguez Gutiérrez, is a compilation of interventions from a training course held in 2007. It was a course on Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo and his relationship with other contemporary novelists from Spain. It was brought up because Menéndez Pelayo not only contributed to artistic and critical creation, but was also a seasoned reader of his literary colleagues; hence many of the criticisms, reflections or reviews of him. The intervention of Leonardo Romero Tobar, author of this review, focused on the analysis that Menéndez Pelayo had made of the history of the Spanish novel, its origins, changes and literary movements that he adopted. The volume mentions the most relevant contemporary writers and includes hemerographies and epistles that provide information on Menéndez Pelayo's vision regarding the novel and writing in general.