Abstract
The configuration of Alvaro Mesia and Juanito Santa Cruz according to the archetype of Don Juan is not ideologically neutral or obedient to a gallant topic, but serves Clarin and Galdos to illustrate the pernicious role of the bourgeois state in the context of the Restoration. But the adaptation of the myth to an urban environment modifies it in a radical way: for this reason, the young Santa Cruz ends his novel turned into a shadow run over by the history of Madrid that is being made; while Mesia is, in an almost medieval Vetusta, the only character that is not eventually destroyed.Key words: «donjuanismo», Alvaro Mesia, Juanito Santa Cruz, Perez Galdos, Clarin.
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