Re the previous post, here's a more lengthy discussion of Galdos, via Tom (Amateur Reader) at Wuthering Expectations:
I was surprised at the earthiness of Fortunata and Jacinta, at its
vulgarity. Victorian English (and American, and for that matter Russian) novels
distort my view of the literary world. The French, of course, are hopelessly
smutty, we all know that, but shouldn’t the literature of Catholic Spain, home
of the Counter-Reformation, be as demure as the Victorians? Well, it ain’t, not
Galdós, at least, who is very much in the tradition of the uninhibited Cervantes
and Lazarillo de Tormes.
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