Abstract
Both Ángel de Campo, Micrós, in his novel La Rumba, and Federico Gamboa in Santa, manifest themselves as Realist writers with some connections towards Naturalism. Both writers recount the lives of two "poor, but honest" girls who succumb to the dangers of a vicious and cruel city, victims of their own charm. Thus, just like Gamboa in Santa, Micrós examines in his novel different moral, social and sentimental aspects related to the life of Remedios Vena, the protagonist of La Rumba. This way, faithful to their positivist formation and their Catholic faith, both writers look with indulgence and sympathy at these two souls fallen into vice and abandonment.