151

A. A. Parker, «Villaamil: Tragic Victim or Comic Failure?», Anales Galdosianos, IV, 1969, 13-22.

152

Eamonn Rodgers, Pérez Galdós: Miau, Critical Guides to Spanish Texts, London, 1978, p. 25.

153

Quoted by D. C. Muecke, Irony, London, 1970, p. 19.

154

Eamonn Rodgers, op. cit., p. 39.

155

The notion of «complex seeing» is of Brechtian origin and in its original application it proposed the idea that «thinking above the flow of the play is more important than thinking from within the flow of the play». Quoted by Raymond Williams, Modern Tragedy, London, 1966, p. 193.

156

Miguel de Unamuno, Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo, Austral ed. Madrid, 1972, p. 16.

157

Michael Nimetz, Humor in Galdós, New Haven, 1968, p. 127.

158

«In a stalemate», affirms Raymond Williams, «there is no possibility of movement or even the effort at movement; every willed action is self-cancelling... Its end is a suicide which the others cannot interpret or comprehend». Op. cit., p. 142.

159

Geoffrey Ribbans, «Ricardo Gullón and the novels of Galdós», Anales Galdosianos, III, 1968, p. 16.

160

Unamuno, op. cit., p. 17.