José María de Pereda y Sánchez Porrúa is traditionally considered a traditional writer, perhaps because of the well-known recommendation made by Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo not to stray from the local issues of the Santander of yesteryear. However, when reading Sotileza "published for the first time in 1885" one suspects that this should not have been a diminutive piece of advice, but that the intention might have been to clear the field of action and allow the writer to dedicate his genius to painting the soul of its characters. It is true that the atmosphere of the High Street revives in this book, but it does not do so by means of descriptions "that it has, and very good" but from the words of Silda, Andresillo, Aunt Sidora or Carpia, whose dialogues and discussions are human and captivating through time and the customs that separate us.There is in Sotileza a recreation of human drama where circumstances, foreseeable in the manner of a Greek tragedy, determine events beyond the will of the characters. Throughout the pages and in front of the r
