In La Tribuna (1883) author Emilia Pardo Baz n, while focusing on the cigarette workers proletarians' lives puts into practice the detailed documentation, the emphasis on environmental conditioning, genuineness, and the strength of passions, of 'naturalism' as expressed in her essay La Cuesti n Palpitante. The topic of 'the needy classes' had previously appeared in the Spanish pulp-novels, but Pardo Baz n's innovation is to include the hindsight of the workers' awareness of the class confrontation during the democratic, revolutionary six-year period, 1868-1874, and to do so with the observational perceptivity that highlights the understandable human and emotional aspects that account for ideological adhesions. Due to this, and in the words of the author, The Tribune dissatisfied both Tyrians and Trojans. The Republicans felt caricaturized, and the conservatives, musky people, revolted against the sincere and frank description of the people and working-class life. The main theme, the