 He only adopted a realist position when he chose real settings (like his native Andalusia) and lifelike characters, although he rejected the less attractive aspects of reality, which ran contrary to the credo of the naturalists and some realists.His importance is due to his novels; the first of them is "Pepita Jiménez" (1874), mostly written in epistolary form.In this work, the story of a widow is told.