Ficciones no disimuladas. La narrativa breve de José Fernández Bremón

At the beginning of the twentieth century, shortly before his early death, Leopoldo Alas presented José Fernández Bremón to French readers as the "author of numerous stories full of talent and charming freshness". Although the name of Fernández Bremón (1839-1910) will ring a bell today, our author enjoyed great notoriety in the turbulent years of the Glorious and the Restoration thanks to his journalistic chronicles, his festive verses and his theatrical premieres, the political and literary quarrels in which he intervened and, in fact, the short stories, more than a hundred,  which he published in the Spanish press between 1866 and 1909. The aim of this monograph is none other than to delve into the life and work of Fernández Bremón through his different facets: the journalist and the literary critic, the moralist and the conservative, the versifier and the playwright, but, above all, the highly original narrator who, always reluctant to bend to literary fashions,  he flirted with the fantasy genre and science fiction, the historical and legendary tale, the fable and the criminal chronicle, the costumbrista story and, of course, the humorous tale