municipal street plate 104 Hortaleza voluntarily live away from the Court Galdos in his "retirement semi-wild" at the top of Sardinero, making occasional trips to Madrid to attend trials of his play "The San Quentin" which will be a resounding success on the day of its premiere on January 27, 1893, at the Comedy Theatre and, therefore, will name their new home in Santander. Write there this year, 1893, "Torquemada on the Cross" and the following year "Torquemada in Purgatory." P
or then writes Ortiz Armengol, Galdós lived longer in Santander in Madrid. In the capital of Spain for his family no longer had the floor of the Plaza de Colón, but his sister Carmen was staying with her children, when not in Santander, on the ground that his son Joseph I was in the area of \u200b\u200bMoncloa. Galdós As we know from a letter he wrote to his friend José de Cubas "slept" in Santa Engracia, 49. This street or promenade of Santa Engracia was built rapidly in the 80's and consisted of modest buildings, including some of major importance. It was a usual place to house single storey dwellings and suspects. Galdós knew this area because this area lies in the action of his novel "Tristana." I have tried to distinguish this house from the neighborhood and I'm not sure of your location. The current number 49 corresponds to a rather simple-looking house, but I think you should have run the numbering and number 49 was above the current 47, corner of Calle Ramon Lull, who has the look and the presence of a residential house greater shaft. Harder to figure out the reason for the overnight stay of Galdós in this house, not far from their normal place of work. early Galdós October 1894, after spending the summer in the Pyrenees of Huesca, made his last trip to Las Palmas, perhaps for reasons related to the illness of his sister Magdalena, rich family, who pass away before arrival. After twenty-one days stay on the island, where he was feted by the authorities and population, Galdós return to Madrid, living with her sister and nephew Carmen Hurtado de Mendoza on the floor that this was in the Moncloa a while attending between angry and perplexed, the failure of his theatrical drama "The Wretched", released on 11 December at the Theatre Comedy.
The next year he will Galdós between Santander and Madrid. In the capital, used his time, writing in the editorial office of his partner, Miguel Honorio of the House, across the street from San Mateo n º 11 (located right next to the Romantic Museum) and sleeping in the house of Santa Engracia, 49, increasingly estranged from his family, as his sisters and nephews living in the house while José Hurtado de Mendoza, son of Dona Carmen, an agronomist by profession and called for years after acquiring a greater role in the life of his uncle as a confidant and companion on his travels and excursions, including the city of Toledo, is loved by the writer.
In early 1896, the writer who had published novels and fifty-seven plays, most successful, is concerned about the economy, hurt by the substantial costs it had been the mansion of Santander, more "reserved their private life, apart from those caused by his usual generosity to the needy, which echo his contemporaries.
Eager to increase their yields editorial achieved with the valuable help of Antonio Maura, then "one of the first lawyers in Madrid" to dissolve the partnership that bound him to the House, resuming ownership of their works.
Freed from the bondage and editorial and published by its own means "mercy" one of his best and most enigmatic novels (Zambrano's favorite) and June 1897, mounting its own publishing house in a nice office "located in a mezzanine Hortaleza Street," two steps from the street of San Mateo, where he was housing and editorial office of his former partner. The shop still exists, at the height of 104 of the Hortaleza street and mezzanine, on the left as you enter the portal, currently occupied, not a bad destination for a creative writing workshop. On the facade, one of those ugly plates placed by the city of Madrid in 1993 reminds us that "This was the editorial mezzanine" Galdós Pérez Works "founded by the writer in 1897 until its closure in 1904. At the time, the place should be attractive. Thus we described Oritz Armengol: "The label said" Works of Perez Galdos and looked on three low window, barred. Among these holes and at the foot of the windows, large signs announcing the works, the price of subscriptions and shipping facilities. Frontoncillos In windows, the logo that of the winged sphinx and two lions visible place up, more downcast than challenging, as the emblem of the house they were going to defend forward "works Pérez Galdós." This very foreign and very new in the English book market "as noted by this great Galdós died recently. The cover was done free by a reputable cabinet maker, admirer of Don Benito and the label designed by his friend, architect, painter and illustrator Arthur Mélida. Along with its commercial facility, the writer occupied, rented a new home in Madrid, on Paseo de Areneros n º 46 (after street Alberto Aguilera), in the neighborhood of Madrid, where he was living in 1897, not far from the house of his nephew José Hermenegildo . The economic crisis in the writer, and perhaps the lack of lift could be the cause of moving house, leaving the floor of the luxurious Plaza de Colon. Sanders was the site of a credit society but in 1888 it was purchased, Don Francisco de las Pozas Coterón, who wanted to build for himself an elegant villa with garden, entrusting the management of the works the architect Villajos Ortiz, who finished in 1889. It was a good house, brick, two stories, which eventually added two more of much less quality construction. In 1897, when the lives Galdós, Pozas had died and the house divided, Galdós occupying the top floor and accessible through the portal. Not relied upon by the imaginative Federico Carlos Sainz de Robles, saying it was a flat "fed narrow, with many neighbors
current state of the house of Galdós in Madrid in Calle Alberto Aguilera, 70 This house still exists, much transformed, at number 70 in the Rue de Alberto Aguilera, corner Gaztambide Street (in front of El Corte Ingles, which occupies the place where the neighborhood was Pozas) and offers a chamfer which would then be the garden of the house and now has been replaced by a one-story building occupied by stores. On the portal of entry railings still shines construction THE DATE 1893.
In 1897, the year of the assassination of Prime Minister, Canovas del Castillo in a spa, a powerful drama premieres Galdós highly successful "Grandpa" consecration of the triumph of love over the laws of the blood and starts to Zumalacárregui , which is already listed as the company publishing "works of Pérez Galdós, Hortaleza 132, Madrid, "the third installment of the National Episodes will continue with nine more to the early twentieth century, while Spain lost its last American colonies.
1900 begins with trip to Paris, home of the Universal Exhibition where Galdós is presented to the French intellectual who knows you and admires him name and the final break with his former lover, converted to Judaism, Concha Morell.
Galdós had the opportunity to live near the French capital in the outcome of the "affaire Dreyfus" and this may encourage you to write in 1901 in Santander refuge in the drama "Electra" tough statement against the powers of the Church and in particular against the Society of Jesus. His debut in the English Theatre on January 30, 1901. was a resounding success that shocked the entire country. His supporters, including five hundred thousand people accompanied the writer to stand on a frigid January night to his office across the street from Hortaleza. This demonstration came a false story, often repeated, that Galdós was brought home to her shoulders like a matador, shouting "Viva Galdós," which led one of the porters said "Long live, yes, but live closer. "
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November, 2009 ( last updated, January 2010)
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NOTES
1. According to Ortiz Armengol, José Hermenegildo, Galdós's nephew lived in the Calle Marques de Urquijo 28 (before costs of Sanders), in the suburb of Arguelles, midway on the slope down from the Princess Street the Paseo de Rosales.
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