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# The Realist and Naturalist Novel The novel has the following characteristics: * **Verisimilitude:** Faithful to reality. Both actions and characters, spaces and language are believable, avoiding imaginative elements. * **Detailed Character Portrayal:** Characters are profoundly analyzed psyc...

# The Realist and Naturalist Novel The novel has the following characteristics: * **Verisimilitude:** Faithful to reality. Both actions and characters, spaces and language are believable, avoiding imaginative elements. * **Detailed Character Portrayal:** Characters are profoundly analyzed psychologically. In many instances, characters have physical or psychological traits. * **Detailed Descriptions:** Uses meticulous descriptions, providing detailed portrayals of settings and environments using numerous adjectives. * **Omniscient Narrator:** The narrator is omniscient (knows everything), including the thoughts and feelings of characters. * **Dialogue:** Contains numerous dialogues that correspond with the characters' social status. # Authors The most prominent novelists of this era were Benito Pérez Galdós, with *Marianela* or *Fortunata and Jacinta*, Emilia Pardo Bazán, with *Los Pazos de Ulloa*, and Leopoldo Alas "Clarín," with *La Regenta*. * **Benito Pérez Galdós:** * **Emilia Pardo Bazán:** * **Leopoldo Alas "Clarín":** A prominent intellectual with liberal ideas who criticized the injustices and corruption that were part of the Restoration monarchy. His most important work is *La Regenta*. He explored the theme of inherited traits and how they affect characters and their choices. A key character in *La Regenta*, Ana Ozores, attempts to avoid gossip and scandal, but eventual events that transpire cause her to succumb to negative circumstances. She tries to live a quiet life, marries an older man and dedicates herself to spiritual growth, then is ensnared by a seducer. Her husband is killed and she is left alone in a society that judges her harshly.