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Dec 27, 2019
Abstract
The description and criticism of the Spanish education system of the nineteenth century is a recurring theme in the novels of the Spanish writer, Benito Pérez Galdós. In this paper we study the topic in the novel El doctor Centeno (1884). We focus on how the writer shows, with narrative techniques such as focalization and its language consequences, the contradictions of that teaching method and the reading and writing –literacy- learning, both of them based on repeating and others memory techniques. In this way, we reflect on the necessary caution that must be assumed when we try to identify fictional realism with the objectivity of a strictly documentary work.
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