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Imagined Truths, 05/2019Book Chapter
Spain’s two leading late nineteenth-century authors published short fictional works in the wake of the introduction into Madrid of one of the visual emblems of Spain’s new material reality and nascent modernity, the streetcar. Benito Pérez Galdós’s short novel La novela en el tranvía The Novel on the Streetcar highlighted this innovation in Madrid’s urban transport. Published in La Ilustración de Madrid on 30 November and 15 December 1871, within six months of the inauguration of Madrid’s first streetcar line, Galdós’s novella continues to attract critical attention from diverse perspectives. Elizabeth Amann avers that it is “one of the earliest
