Menéndez Pelayo, historiador de la novela

Trying to condense the main features that define the work as a historian and literary critic of a personality like Menéndez Pelayo is something that undoubtedly goes beyond the objective of this work. It seems necessary, however, to establish even a slight outline on this issue, in order to be able to situate and value in its proper measure what the appearance of the Origins of the novel, a text that corresponds to the stage of full maturity of the distinguished Cantabrian thinker.