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Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano (1824-1905), was a Spanish realist author, writer and political figure, best known for Pepita Jimenez which depicts a young seminarian's gradual of the empty vanity of his vocation, culminating in a shattering denouement. Armando Palacio Valdes (1853-1938) was a Spanish novelist and critic. His Marta y Maria portrays of the struggle between religious vocation and earthly passion, somewhat in the manner of Valera.

En Nuevas cartas americanas aparece el punto de vista peninsular ante los movimientos de Independencia de latinoamrica y las reivindicaciones histricas del Nuevo Mundo, en especfico de Cuba. Se trata de una visin muy distinta a la que muestra la historia oficial de Amrica, con una visin descarnada de los orgenes tnicos de Latinoamrica, aunque esgrime argumentos econmicos y polticos que merecen atencin. In 'New American Letters," we find the attitudes of the Iberian peninsular world in the face of the Latin American independence movements, and the historical proclamations of the New World, specifically pertaining to Cuba. The book relays a vision very distinct on the surface from the official history of the Americas, with a spare interpretation of the ethnic origins of the Latin American culture, though there are also economic and political assertions that deserve attention.

En la Andalucia del siglo XIX, la joven Pepita Jimenez -obligada por su tia Salvaora a casarse con el usurero Gumersindo- enviuda durante su banquete de bodas. Tras el funeral de su marido, Pepita es pretendida por un conde y por el hacendado Pedro, padre del seminarista Luis. Sin embargo, la joven se siente atraida por Luis, quien vuelve a su pueblo natal para pasar una vacaciones antes de ordenarse sacerdote y este se contiene por respeto a su padre.