19世紀スペイン文学を代表する作家ベニート・ペレス・ガルドスの大作『フォルトゥナータとハシンタ』がどのように形づくられていったのかを、多角的にたどる研究書です。ジェフリー・リバンズは、初期稿から手書き原稿、校正刷りに至るまでの膨大な資料を比較し、語り手の視点、自由間接話法、対話の構造、人物ごとの言語特徴といった表現技法がどのように発展し、最終的な統一的テキストへと収斂していくのかを丁寧に分析しています。特に二人の女性主人公を中心に、登場人物が当時の社会や政治、マドリードの都市空間とどのように結びつき、複雑な人間関係の網の目を形成していくのかを明らかにする点が本書の大きな魅力です。作品の生成過程を追うことで、ガルドス文学の創造力とリアリズムの深みを実感でき、専門家だけでなく一般読者にも読み応えのある内容となっています。


Description:
Between 1881 and 1897, Benito Pérez Gald6s, generally acknowledged as Spain’s greatest nineteenth-century novelist, composed some twenty ‘contemporary’ novels, which Geoffrey Ribbans characterizes as the peak of his achievement. This monumental study traces the evolution of the many strands that make up one of them: the long and complex novel Fortunata y Jacinta.

Ribbans examines the various stages of composition, not only the earlier, reconstructed Alpha version but also subsequent revisions in the much corrected handwritten text as well as in the printer’s galleys. He treats these tentative drafts not in isolation but as part of the process of reaching out toward the coherent definitive text.

Ribbans’s analysis of such devices as the ambiguous role of the narrator, the use of free indirect style and direct dialogue, and the construction of distinctive ideolects leads to the heart of his study, the development of Gald6s’s characters. This discussion, which is expanded to include the interaction of the characters with the society and politics of their time and their integration into the topography of Madrid, focuses particularly on the two female protagonists. Ribbans’s examination uncovers a structural pattern of contrasting, highly developed characters, all interacting and contributing to an intricate network of social involvement.


CONTENTS:

Preface......ix

List of abbvreviations......xiii

Key to Textual History of Fortunata y Jacinta......xv

Introduction......1

Chapter 1: Structure......15

Chapter 2: Representation......49

Chapter 3: Time and Space......85

Chapter 4: Characters in Family and Society......123

Chapter 5: The Positivist-Idealist Dichotomy......163

Chapter 6: Frustrations and Accommodations......193

Chapter 7: Fortunata......227

Chapter 8: Conclusion......267

Notes......285

Works Consulted......319

Index......341