La Incógnita

Summary

"La Incógnita" by Benito Pérez Galdós is a novel published in 1889. Told through letters from Manuel Infante to a mysterious correspondent, the story follows Infante as he arrives in Madrid as a new deputy and becomes entangled in the lives of Francisco Viera, Tomás Orozco, and Orozco's wife Augusta. When Infante falls for a married woman and a friend dies under unclear circumstances, he confronts troubling questions: Was he rejected out of virtue or rivalry? Was the death suicide or murder? (This is an automatically generated summary.)