She is not a proxy for the author, I argue, but chisme personified. The first-person female narrator, a choice that is unusual for Pardo Bazán in this genre, is one of them. The protagonists of ‘Morrión y Boina’ epitomize, and undercut, the ‘personalism’ and caciquismo that was to be the death of Carlist politics in the nineteenth century. ![]() Applying Ricardo Piglia’s theses on the short story, this article reveals the multiple narratives in this short story, and how its secret stories are key to its gossip form. Emilia Pardo Bazán lent significant support to its founder, José Lázaro Galdiano, and, arguably, ‘Morrión y Boina’ was chosen as a ‘signature’ piece on Restoration politics to ‘lead’ that first issue. ![]() ![]() ‘Morrión y Boina’ was the first composition to appear in the first issue of La España Moderna.
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