The Edad de Plata and the regeneration of the novel.

... Introduction The Edad de Plata and the regeneration of the novel At the end of the nineteenth century a great crisis arose; the contemporary intellectuals and writers, wanted to break from their antecedents and look for the new and innovative, within literature and art. Some have named this era within literature as the Edad de Plata1. The Edad de Plata encapsulates the crisis approaching the end of a century, as well as the crisis of 1898 and the desastre: the loss of the Spanish Empire, which included Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Moreover, the Edad de Plata covers the bleak political and economic situation within Spain. The crisis facing the end of the century did not only affect Spain; it also affected Europe and the Western world. This crisis manifested itself in many different forms. The search for a new novelistic genre was because the earlier novelistic genres were outdated; a

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