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La atracción del abismo en Galdós: el suicidio en La estafeta romántica

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    Cosano Laguna, Sara
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    Cosano Laguna, Sara

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    Format:
    Journal article
    Language:
    Spanish; Castilian
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    text (article)
    Published:
    Universidad de Valladolid 2011
    In:
    Castilla: Estudios de Literatura ISSN 1989-7383 Nº. 2, 2011
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    Suicide is one of the most recurrent themes in Pérez Galdós novels. Among all the books that make up Los Episodios Nacionales, La estafeta romántica is probably the one in which this interest in suicide is best shown. With an epistolary structure, this work brings up the psychological and sociological reasons behind Mariano José de Larra�s and another three fictional characters� suicides. This article examines the vital circumstances of these four characters in order to match them with the suicide typologies proposed by the sociologist Émile Durkheim. Considering as well the importance of this work�s historical background, we also analyze the possible symbolic implications of each of these four characters� suicides.


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