Armando Francisco Bonifacio Palacio y Rodríguez-Valdés (4 October 185329 January 1938) was a Spanish novelist and critic.
Biography
Palacio was born at
Entrialgo in the province of
Asturias
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on 4 October 1853, eldest son of Silverio Palacio y Cárcaba, a lawyer, and Eduarda Rodríguez-Valdés y Alas, an 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, Palacio Valdés achieved a popular triumph.
According to a contemporaneous assessment by
James Fitzmaurice-Kelly in the
''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition:
Palacio was elected to seat ''k'' of the
Real Academia Española
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on 3 May 1906, he took up his seat on 12 December 1920.
A collection of his short stories appeared in
English 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 movement and genre of literature that attempts to represent mundane and ordinary subject-matter in a faithful and straightforward way, avoiding grandiose or exotic subject-matter, exaggerated portrayals, and speculative ele ...
: General vision of the movement
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Spanish literature: Evolution of Spanish literature
In Spanish
*
wikisource:es:Armando Palacio Valdés
*
:es:Literatura española del Realismo
Notes
References
*''Diccionario de literatura española''. Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1964.
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1853 births
1938 deaths
Spanish male writers
People from Asturias
Members of the Royal Spanish Academy
University of Oviedo alumni