Libido into Literature:

About the Book

This book traces Galdos's earliest thinking concerning the dynamic relationship among individual, society and nature as it develops and changes in this early phase of his writing. It elucidates the imagery, the symbolism, evocative language, biblical and mythological motifs, the rich battery of literary devices with which the greatest writer of Spain since Cervantes converts unconscious material into literature. The works covered represent a period of artistic apprenticeship and ideological struggle within Galdos's mind.

About the Author

Dr. Clark M. Zlotchew is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Spanish language and Spanish and Latin- American literature. He has had 17 books published, including literary criticism, translations from Spanish of poetry and short stories, including the work of Nobel Laureates, books teaching Spanish at various levels, his own thriller novels and a collection of his short stories.