

Yo tuve que leer esta novela como parte del programa de Español cuando estaba en el colegio.Įste libro fué escrito por Benito Pérez Galdós, que fué un famoso escritor de España. Marianela has become one of the most popular and known pieces of Iberoamerican literature, and it has been adapted several times to theater, films and TV, even very recently, on this year (2013) even got a comic book adaptation. Florentina is very gorgeous and really a nice person. The final key element to this tragic but lovely story is the arrival of Florentina, the young niece of Doctor Golfín. This situation provokes mixed feelings to poor Marianela, since she loves Pablo and she wants that he would be able to see, but that means that he would be able to watch her and he will realize that she is too ugly. Although many specialists examined before to Pablo, Doctor Golfín is confident to be able to perform an operation to cure Pablo from his blindness. Pablo even confesses to Marianela that he is in love with her and that he wants to marry her when both would be adults.įate gets between them when an ophthalmologist arrives to town and he wants to examine Pablo to know if he would be able to bring sight to the young boy.

However, "La Nela" never dare to describe herself to Pablo, so he didn't know how Marianela looked like, but since she has a kind voice and she is always gentle with him, Pablo guessed that she must be really beautiful. Pablo, the blind boy, is really happy with the guideness of "La Nela" since she becames the "eyes" of him and the whole world takes shape in the mind of Pablo thanks to the descriptions and comments by Marianela. Marianela is very ugly and deformed, and also she isn't very skillful in any normal chore in the states so she ended as the guide of the state's owner's young son, who is a blind. Marianela lives along with the foreman's family of a rich state where the mining is the main industry there. Marianela is a tragic but lovely story about a poor orphan girl whose name was Marianela but almost all people called her "La Nela" (an usual form to call women with that particular name for short). This book was written by Benito Pérez Galdós, that he was a famous writer from Spain. I had to read this novel as part of the Spanish program when I was in high school.

First, you will find the English version and after that one, you will find the Spanish version.
