EL ETERNO MITO DEL FRUTO PROHIBIDO EN “LO PROHIBIDO” DE BENITO PÉREZ GALDÓS
THE ETERNAL MYTH OF THE PROHIBITED FRUIT IN "THE PROHIBITED" OF BENITO PÉREZ GALDÓS

Summary/Abstract: Spanish literary critics consider Benito Pérez Galdós as the most remarkable representative of the realism in Spain, and at the same time, one of the most important novelists in the history of universal literature. In his novel, The forbidden, the writer presents with extreme accuracy of all the realists the Madrid of 1880-1884, with details from the life of its inhabitants. The Forbidden tells the story of José María, a man who falls in love with Eloísa, his married cousin and because of this he betrays her husband’s friendship. The husband dies and the hero is filled with remorse, and he no longer feels attracted to the senseless woman. José María doesn’t love Eloísa anymore, but he loves her sister, who is married. José María is always attracted by ‘the forbidden’.

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