Pardo Bazán, Emilia, Countess de
- Pardo Bazán, Emilia, Countess de
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▪ Spanish writer
born Sept. 16, 1852, La Coruña, Spain
died May 12, 1921, Madrid
Spanish author of novels, short stories, and literary criticism.
Pardo Bazán attained early eminence with her polemical essay
La cuestión palpitante (1883; “The Critical Issue”). It discussed Émile Zola (
Zola, Émile) and
naturalism, made French and Russian literary movements known in Spain, and started an important literary controversy in which she championed a brand of naturalism that affirmed the free will of the individual. Her finest and most representative novels are
Los Pazos de Ulloa (1886;
The Son of a Bondwoman) and its sequel,
La madre naturaleza (1887; “Mother Nature”)—studies of physical and moral ruin among the Galician squirearchy, set against a beautiful natural background and a moral background of corrupting power.
Insolación (“Sunstroke”) and
Morriña (“The Blues”; both 1889) are excellent psychological studies. Her husband separated from her because her literary reputation scandalized him. Pardo Bazán was professor of Romance literature at the University of Madrid. In 1916 she was accorded the distinction—unusual for a woman in those days—of a chair of literature.
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