Galdós Lectures

The Annual Pérez Galdós Lecture, endowed by the Spanish Embassy and supported by the Herbert Hughes Memorial Trust, celebrates the work of Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920), Spain's greatest novelist after Cervantes, and one of the masters of European realism.

In the thirty novels which form the core of his achievement, Galdós bears unique witness to the public and private life of Madrid in the years when it began to be a great modern city. Thrustful, yet accident-prone, shaped by powerful impersonal forces, yet full of intensely human passages of life, Galdós's Madrid is still our kind of city. As one of his finest critics wrote, "he makes us see more clearly when we look around us".

Fifteen lectures have been delivered to date, with prestigious speakers coming from the UK, Spain and USA.

(See http://www.gep.group.shef.ac.uk/annual.htm for the full list and copies of the lectures.)