Pereda painted by himself (1851-1906). An epistolary. Volume II

The epistolary consists of three volumes. The first contains the introduction, written by Salvador García Castañeda (590 pages), and the chronological and onomastic indexes.

These three volumes constitute a magnum opus that reveals unknown facets of the writer José María de Pereda (1833-1906). The work is the fruit of a lifetime of research dedication to the figure of the Polanco writer by the professor of Literature at the Ohio State University, Salvador García Castañeda, 2022 Ciudad de Santander Literature Prize winner and member of the Board of the Menéndez Pelayo Society.

It brings together one thousand three hundred and fifty-three letters, most of them written by Pereda and largely unpublished. It also collects epistles from his correspondents, which provide a large amount of new data and which discover, rectify or clarify what has been said so far about his personality, beliefs, ideas, character and customs, about his daily life and about his literary work.

The letters compiled in this work correspond to the period from 1851 to 1906, that is, fifty-five years of the life of the author of Sotileza and reveal the stylist, the well-considered writer in his historical context, the observer of the customs of society. of his time, and the passionate lover of his land.