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La Novela de Un Novelista
Publicada en 1921, se trata de memorias de la epoca infantil y juvenil. El autor narra sus primeros anos de vida a lo largo de las deliciosas paginas de esta autobiografia ejemplar. Tales episodios son contados con sencilla emocion y una ternura conmovedora, traspasado de finisimo humor."
- GenresSpanish Literature
301 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1921
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About the author
Armando Palacio Valdés
210 books4 followersArmando Francisco Bonifacio Palacio y Rodríguez Valdés (1853-1938) was a Spanish novelist and critic. Palacio Valdés was born at Entralgo in the province of Asturias on the October 4, 1853.
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 María (1883), a portrayal of the struggle between religious vocation and earthly passion, somewhat in the manner of Valera, Palacio Valdés achieved a very popular triumph which placed him in the first rank of contemporary Spanish novelists.
El idilio de un enfermo (1884), a most interesting fragment of autobiography, has scarcely met with the recognition which it deserves: perhaps because the pathos of the story is too unadorned. The publication of Peredas Sotileza is doubtless responsible for the conception of José (1885), in which Palacio Valdés gives a realistic picture of the manners and customs of seafaring folk, creates the two convincing characters whom he names José and Leonarda, and embellishes the whole with passages of animated description barely inferior to the finest penned by Pereda himself.
A collection of his short stories appeared in English translation in 1935.
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 María (1883), a portrayal of the struggle between religious vocation and earthly passion, somewhat in the manner of Valera, Palacio Valdés achieved a very popular triumph which placed him in the first rank of contemporary Spanish novelists.
El idilio de un enfermo (1884), a most interesting fragment of autobiography, has scarcely met with the recognition which it deserves: perhaps because the pathos of the story is too unadorned. The publication of Peredas Sotileza is doubtless responsible for the conception of José (1885), in which Palacio Valdés gives a realistic picture of the manners and customs of seafaring folk, creates the two convincing characters whom he names José and Leonarda, and embellishes the whole with passages of animated description barely inferior to the finest penned by Pereda himself.
A collection of his short stories appeared in English translation in 1935.
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January 14, 2016
Este libro es simplemente una autobiografía de la que casi nada rescaté. Casi, porque en él he marcado un capítulo que me pareció increíble, y más por ser una historia verídica.
Es otro libro del cual no tengo la menor idea de cómo llegó a mi hogar, pero si así sucede termina en mi biblioteca.
Es otro libro del cual no tengo la menor idea de cómo llegó a mi hogar, pero si así sucede termina en mi biblioteca.
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