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Armando Palacio Valdés (4 October 185329 January 1938) was a Spanish novelist and critic.
*''Semblanzas literarias'' (1871)
*''Los oradores del Ateneo'' (1878)
*''El nuevo viaje al Parnaso'' (1879)
*''La literatura en'' (1881), with Leopoldo Alas
*''El señorito Octavio'' (1881)
*''Marta y María'' (1883)
*''Aguas fuertes'' (1884)
*''El idilio de un enfermo'' (1884)
*''José'' (1885)
*''Riverita'' (1886)
*''Maximina'' (1887)
*''El cuarto poder'' (1888)
*''La hermana San Sulpicio'' (1889)
*''La espuma'' (1890)
*''La espuma'' (1891)
*''La fe'' (1892)
*''El maestrante'' (1893)
*''El Orígen del Pensamiento''(1893)
*''Los majos de Cádiz'' (1896)
*''La alegría del capitán Ribot'' (1899) ("The Joy of Captain Ribot", 1900)
*''Tristán o el pesimismo'' (1906)
*''La aldea perdida'' (1911)
*''Los papeles del doctor Angélico'' (1911)
*''Años de juventud del doctor Angélico'' (1918)
*''La novela de un novelista'' (1921)
*''Cuentos escogidos'' (1923)
*''La hija de Natalia'' (1924)
*''El pájaro en la nieve y otros cuentos'' (1925)
*''Santa Rogelia'' (1926)
*''Los cármenes de Granada'' (1927)
*''Testamento literario'' (1929)
*''Sinfonía pastoral'' (1930)
*''El gobierno de las mujeres'' (1931)
*''Obras completas'' (1935)
*''Álbum de un viejo'' (1940)
*''El Crimen en Calle de la Perseguida'' (Unknown)
Biography
Armando Francisco Bonifacio Palacio y Rodríguez-Valdés was born at Entralgo in the province ofAsturias
Asturias (, ; ast, Asturies ), officially the Principality of Asturias ( es, Principado de Asturias; ast, Principáu d'Asturies; Galician-Asturian: ''Principao d'Asturias''), is an autonomous community in northwest Spain.
It is coextensiv ...
on 4 October 1853, eldest son of Silverio Palacio y Cárcaba, a lawyer, and Eduarda Rodríguez-Valdés y Alas, a aristocrat. His brothers, Atanasio and Leopoldo, also were writers.
His first writings were printed in the '' Revista Europea''. These were pungent essays, remarkable for independent judgment and refined humour, and found so much favor with the public that the young beginner was soon appointed editor of the ''Revista''. The best of his critical work is collected in ''Los Oradores del Ateneo'' (1878), ''Los Novelistas españoles'' (1878), ''Nuevo viaje al Parnaso and La Literatura en 1881'' (1882), this last being written in collaboration with Leopoldo Alas.
In 1881 he published a novel, ''El señorito Octavio'', which shows an uncommon power of observation, and the optimistic promise of better things to come. In ''Marta y Maria'' (1883), a portrayal of the struggle between religious vocation and earthly passion, somewhat in the manner of Valera
Valera is a city in Trujillo State in Venezuela, situated between the rivers Momboy and Motatán. The mayor is José Karkom, who has had that post since 2013. The city is home to Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Colombian and Spanish commu ...
, Palacio Valdés achieved a popular triumph.
According to a contemporaneous assessment by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
James Fitzmaurice-Kelly FBA (1858 – 30 November 1923) was a British writer on Spanish literature.
Born in Glasgow, He was the son of Colonel Thomas Kelly of the 40th Regiment of Foot and was educated at St Charles's College, Kensington, where ...
in the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition:
A collection of his short stories appeared in English
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translation in 1935.
Works
*''Semblanzas literarias'' (1871)
*''Los oradores del Ateneo'' (1878)
*''El nuevo viaje al Parnaso'' (1879)
*''La literatura en'' (1881), with Leopoldo Alas
*''El señorito Octavio'' (1881)
*''Marta y María'' (1883)
*''Aguas fuertes'' (1884)
*''El idilio de un enfermo'' (1884)
*''José'' (1885)
*''Riverita'' (1886)
*''Maximina'' (1887)
*''El cuarto poder'' (1888)
*''La hermana San Sulpicio'' (1889)
*''La espuma'' (1890)
*''La espuma'' (1891)
*''La fe'' (1892)
*''El maestrante'' (1893)
*''El Orígen del Pensamiento''(1893)
*''Los majos de Cádiz'' (1896)
*''La alegría del capitán Ribot'' (1899) ("The Joy of Captain Ribot", 1900)
*''Tristán o el pesimismo'' (1906)
*''La aldea perdida'' (1911)
*''Los papeles del doctor Angélico'' (1911)
*''Años de juventud del doctor Angélico'' (1918)
*''La novela de un novelista'' (1921)
*''Cuentos escogidos'' (1923)
*''La hija de Natalia'' (1924)
*''El pájaro en la nieve y otros cuentos'' (1925)
*''Santa Rogelia'' (1926)
*''Los cármenes de Granada'' (1927)
*''Testamento literario'' (1929)
*''Sinfonía pastoral'' (1930)
*''El gobierno de las mujeres'' (1931)
*''Obras completas'' (1935)
*''Álbum de un viejo'' (1940)
*''El Crimen en Calle de la Perseguida'' (Unknown)
See also
In English
*Literary realism
Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements. It originated with the realist art movement that began with ...
: General vision of the movement
*Spanish literature
Spanish literature generally refers to literature (Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of Spain. Its development coincides and frequently intersects w ...
: Evolution of Spanish literature
In Spanish
* wikisource:es:Armando Palacio Valdés * :es:Literatura española del RealismoReferences
*''Diccionario de literatura española''. Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1964.External links
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Valdes, Armando Palacio 1853 births 1938 deaths Spanish male writers People from Asturias Members of the Royal Spanish Academy University of Oviedo alumni