Marianela entre voces y miradas

Abstract

This article analyses the construction of Marianela, a character in the homonymous work written by Benito Pérez Galdós (1878). It focuses on the definition and representation of the main character, while taking into account the voices and gazes as understood in a broad sense, that is, comprising not only the viewpoint of the realist writer, who considers the work as a thesis novel, but also the voice of Marianela herself, with the particular characteristics of her language, and the gazes and discourse of the rest of the characters and the narrator. At the same time, the article highlights the gazes on her body, its misalignments, and its animalisation, as well as the voices that label and, therefore, define her. This article also addresses the representation of Marianela in the eyes of Pablo and the subsequent transformations that she undergoes.