Doña Perfecta (Annotated)

Doña Perfecta is one of Benito Pérez Galdós's most incisive early novels, a tightly constructed work of realist fiction in which private conflict becomes an anatomy of national division. Set in the provincial town of Orbajosa, the novel stages the confrontation between liberal modernity and reactionary Catholic traditionalism through the doomed encounter of Pepe Rey and his aunt, Doña Perfecta. Ga...