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Emilia Pardo Bazán championed an autochthonous "naturalism," of a pure-blooded character and typical of Spanish literature. "Los Pazos de Ulloa" is a sample of this conviction and her most outstanding work. Like other European novels of the turn of the century, it is the saga of a social class in the Galician rural aristocracy. Dramatic scenes between characters drawn with force, intense descriptions of a corrupt political structure, alternate with evocations of the countryside. A regional novel, but not regionalist, it is not limited in its implications to a region chosen for its picturesqueness, but is inspired by that setting to give us a universal declaration of the time.