Abstract
Porfirio Sanchez's article ‘La dualidad mistica en La sirena negra de Pardo Bazan’ is the first attempt at a detailed consideration of the question of mysticism in Pardo Bazan's novels. That the usual critical division between an early ‘naturalist’ and a later ‘spiritualist’ phase in Pardo Bazan's work is an oversimplification is emphasized by Dr Sanchez who, despite a curious suggestion that Julian and Gabriel are representatives of mysticism, is right in pointing to the spiritual content of Los pazos de Ulloa (1886) and La madre naturaleza (1887). Between the writing of these two novels, Pardo Bazan had written on the Russian novelists whose influence was a major factor in the Catholic revival in literature which took place in France in the 1880s and 1890s and which Pardo Bazan felt herself and other Spanish novelists to be involved in.
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