Ángel Ganivet García (13 December 1865 – 29 November 1898) was a

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. He was considered a precursor to the Generation of '98. On 29 November 1898, disillusioned in love, Ganivet drowned himself in the

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River. Nearly failing in his attempt, he was first rescued but managed to throw himself into the river again. Ganivet had contemplated suicide for several years, and he had suffered from progressive syphilitic paralysis.

Some of his works

* ''Granada la bella''. (1896) (''Granada the Beautiful'') * ''Idearium español''. (1897) (literally, ''Spanish Idearium'', also translated as ''Spain, an Interpretation'') * ''La conquista del reino de Maya, por el último conquistador español, Pío Cid'' (1897) (''The Conquest of the Mayan Kingdom, by the Last Spanish Conqueror, Pío Cid'') * ''Cartas finlandesas''. (1898) (''Finnish Letters'', also translated into Finnish as ''Suomalaiskirjeitä'') * ''El escultor de su alma''. (1906) (''The Sculptor of Your Soul'')

References

1865 births 1898 deaths Spanish male poets 19th-century poets 19th-century Spanish male writers 1890s suicides Suicides by drowning Suicides in the Russian Empire {{Spain-diplomat-stub