Summary
Benito Perez Galdos: Trafalgar
A novel that represents part of the project of telling the romanticized Spanish history of the 19th century. In the form of a true report, but also a personal story, the narrator in the first person, Gabriel, talks here about the naval battle near the Spanish Cape Trafalgar that took place in 1805 between Napoleon and the English, and in which the Spanish participated on Napoleon's side, trying to settle some scores with the English. At that time, fourteen-year-old Gabriel was taken by his master, a Spanish naval officer, on a ship and into battle. In addition to depicting authentic historical events, the author also portrays numerous characters who took part in them, and the "little people", the fruit of the author's fiction, are particularly vividly depicted.
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