“LA MALA VIDA”: SOURCE AND FOCUS OF DEGENERATION, DEGENERACY AND DECLINE.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Rafael Huertas on the literary and scientific representations of the chain of child and juvenile criminality, one by Pura Fernández on the novel "La piedra angular," by Emilia Pardo Bazán, and one by Teresa Fuentes Peris on the theme of alcoholism and degeneration in the novel "La bodega," by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.