| Summary: | Many novelists all over the world have been thoroughly affected by Cervantes' work, particularly Quixote. It has served as a lecture for the modern narration. Literature continues and keeps alive many of the lessons from Cervantes' work, for example: irony, parody, the conflict between the hero and the world that does not understand him, the essence of antithetic through imagination, fiction and reality, the reflection of reality in fiction, etc. From Cervantes, Galdós got a realistic, transparent, straightforward style; a language that includes all the linguistic books from that vulgar, popular and intellectual, standard and dialect; the vividness of events; the characters of various social strata, whose lives are intricately intertwined, etc. Galdós's characters dialogue is Cervantine, for the remarkable sensitivity it transmits; characters change, grow, are transformed through the dialogue; they are analyzed through dialogue and not meditation or description; he also avoids rhetoric pursuing naturalism and realistic esthetic; his dialogue is embodied with ironic humor of Cervantes's model. Cervantes's work is a direct influence on Galdó's pleasant ironic humor. Galdós's characters are quixotic, for the remarkable sensitivity it transmits. Galdós's narration is free, his reader is free, the freedom that literature has acquired with Cervantes's modern novel.
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