 Later, he would find his ideal formula for the novel, imbuing that costumbrism with a vision which conveyed his love for the landscape and the people of the mountains, with their passions and their characteristic language.In his first novels of this type ("idyllic novel"), he depicted the peacefulness and ignorance of rustic people confronting the political machinations of modern life ("Don Gonzalo de la Gonzalera" and "De tal palo tal astilla").He defended a thesis that nowadays few would accept