251

See E. Varela Hervías, Cartas de Pérez Galdós a Mesonero-Romanos (Madrid, 1943), pp. 7-9, et passim.

252

See W Pattison, Galdós and the Creative Process (Minneapolis, 1954), pp. 12-17.

253

See Juan Marichal, La españolización de España, la edad de oro liberal (México, 1952).

254

Hinterhäuser's rather weak argument on this score, that Galdós could envision no future Spain on the basis of a synthesis (p. 184), is dealt with below.

255

Hinterhäuser sees no dialectic embodied in this expression (p. 121).

256

See I. Berlin, The Hedgehog and the Fox (New York, 1957)

257

Interesting, in this respect, are the views of Marx and Engels on the period in question, in Revolution in Spain (New York, 1939).

258

Galdós has some parting words, in the last of the Episodios, which are more convincing than anything we could say on the matter. See, Miguel Enguídanos, «Mariclío, musa galdosiana», Papeles de Son Armadans, LXIII (June 1961), pp. 235-49.

259

There is little doubt that, while incorporating elements that would eventually divide Spain (because the genetical perspective is always paramount in the novelist), Galdós envisioned and consciously projected the War of Independence as a unanimous expression of the Spanish nation.

260

See G. Lukacs, The Historical Novel (London, 1962), pp. 33-37.