Abstract
By the late 1870s in Spain the political upheavals had diminished, allowing for a relative calm within official circles of the state. However, the effects of continual political conflict and rapidly expanding modernization had significantly altered the socio-cultural foundation of many communities throughout the nation. The novelists who first confronted this transformational period portrayed the response of microcosmic societies to the rapidly shifting identity boundaries. In Jose Maria de Pereda's 1879 novel, Don Gonzalo Gonzalez de la Gonzalera, the rapid socio-cultural changes result in an increase of internal violence among the members of the community. This analysis explores these violent consequences as the outcome of a community's ritual failure and sacred violation of its constructed boundaries.
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