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Juan Valera's __The Illusions of Doctor Faustino (Las ilusiones del doctor Faustino)__ came out in 1875, one year after the resounding success of his Pepita Jiménez. One of the author's contemporaries, the critic Manuel de la Revilla, considered it among the most important novels of his time and compared it to Flaubert's __L'Education sentimentale__ on account of the negative influence of Romanticism on the protagonist's character and life. Don Faustino López de Mendoza, scion of an illustrious but impoverished family of the highest nobility, believes himself destined for great accomplishments in the literary world, sees himself as a poet of the first rank, and immerses himself in grand, if not grandiose, illusions. While living in a provincial Andalusian town and dreaming of triumphing in Madrid's artistic circles, Faustino embarks on a discovery of love, anguishes over his impecunious state, and engages in endless self-analysis. Love―or, at all events, a monetarily advantageous marriage―seems to go hand in glove with turning his illusions and dreams into triumphs and realities. He falls for Costanza and is rejected by her; he falls for María and she eludes him; he thinks he falls
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- Author
- Juan Valera
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813218335
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction