José Fernández-Montesinos LustauHis name usually appears in bibliographies as F. Montesinos, José. (

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, 5 December 1897 –

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, 8 June 1972) was a Spanish historian and

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belonging to the so-called '' Generación del 27'', a generation he himself referred to as "this ill-fated, mistreated and dispersed generation of mine"."La malhadada, maltrecha y dispersa generación mía".

Early career

Montesinos graduated in philosophy and literature from

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in 1916. From 1917 to 1920, he worked at the Centro de Estudios Históricos, as an assistant to

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, Abad Nebot, Francisco
"José Fernández-Montesinos Lustau". ''Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (DB~e)''.

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. Retrieved 3 February 2023. professor of the history of the Spanish language and whose influence led Montesinos to study the works of

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, which he did from 1920 onwards, culminating in the publication of ''Estudios sobre Lope de Vega'',Abad, Francisco (1997)
"Trayectoria crítica de José Fernández Montesinos". ''Signa. Revista de la Asociación Española de Semiótica'' - Núm. 6.
'' Centro Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes''. Retrieved 3 February 2023. first published in Mexico, in 1951. Rafael Lapesa (1998), referring to Montesino's war years, remarked, "The

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brought on tragedies to his family: while in Madrid he received news from Granada that both his brother, the mayor of the city, and his relative

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had been executed."

Works

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, and

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. However, in general, he took an interest all Spanish literature from Garcilaso to his cohorts of the Generation of 27. During the second period, from 1940 to 1946 onwards, while he continued studying the 16- and 17th-century authors, he paid especial attention to the Spanish novels of the 19th century, including those of

Benito Pérez Galdós Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós (; 10 May 1843 – 4 January 1920) was a Spanish Spanish Realist literature, realist novelist. He was a leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Mi ...

Publications

* ''Estudios sobre Lope'', México, El Colegio de México, 1951 (definitive version published by Anaya, Salamanca, 1967) * ''Primavera y flor de los mejores romances recogidos por el licdo. Arias Pérez (Madrid, 1621)'', Valencia, Castalia, 1954 * ''Introducción a una historia de la novela en España en el siglo XIX'', Valencia, Castalia, 1955 * ''Costumbrismo y novela'', Valencia, Castalia, 1960 * ''Fernán Caballero'', México, El Colegio de México, 1961 * ''Pereda o la novela idilio'', Valencia, Castalia, 1969 * ''Valera o la ficción libre'', Valencia, Castalia, 1970 * "Ensayos y estudios de literatura española", IN: Silverman, J. H., Madrid, ''Revista de Occidente'', 1970 (col. Selecta de Revista de Occidente, vol. 36) * Pérez Galdós, B. ''Lo prohibido'' (ed.), Madrid, Castalia, 1971 * ''Pedro Antonio de Alarcón'', Madrid, Castalia, 1977 (2nd ed.) * ''Galdós'', Madrid, Castalia, 1980 (2nd ed.), 3 vols.

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