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Armando Palacio Valdés

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In thisSpanish name,the first or paternalsurnameisPalacioand the second or maternal family name isRodríguez-Valdés.
Armando Palacio Valdés
Photograph from Nuevo Mundo by Manuel Compañy [es]
Photograph fromNuevo Mundo
byManuel Compañy[es]
BornArmando Francisco Bonifacio Palacio y Rodríguez-Valdés
(1853-10-04)4 October 1853
Entralgo,Spain
Died29 January 1938(1938-01-29)(aged 84)
Madrid,Spain
LanguageSpanish
NationalitySpanish
Genresnovels, short stories
Seatkof theReal Academia Española
In office
12 December 1920[a]– 29 January 1938
Preceded byJosé María de Pereda
Succeeded byÁngel González Palencia[es]

Armando Francisco Bonifacio Palacio y Rodríguez-Valdés(4 October 1853 – 29 January 1938) was a Spanish novelist and critic.

Biography

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Palacio was born atEntrialgoin the province ofAsturiason 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 theRevista 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 theRevista.The best of his critical work is collected inLos Oradores del Ateneo(1878),Los Novelistas españoles(1878),Nuevo viaje al Parnaso and La Literatura en 1881(1882), this last being written in collaboration withLeopoldo Alas.[1]

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. InMarta y Maria(1883), a portrayal of the struggle between religious vocation and earthly passion, somewhat in the manner ofValera,Palacio Valdés achieved a popular triumph.[1]

According to a contemporaneous assessment byJames Fitzmaurice-Kellyin theEncyclopædia BritannicaEleventh Edition:

El Idilio de un enfermo(1884), a most interesting fragment ofautobiography,has scarcely met with the recognition which it deserves: perhaps because the pathos of the story is too unadorned. The publication ofPeredas Sotilezais doubtless responsible for the conception ofJosé(1885), in which Palacio Valdés gives a realistic picture of the manners and customs of seafaringfolk,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 byPeredahimself. The emotional imagination of the writer expressed itself anew in the charming storyRiverita(1886), one of whose attractive characters develops into the heroine ofMaximina(1887); and fromMaximina,in its turn, is taken the novice who figures as a professed nun among the personages ofLa Hermana San Sulpicio(1889), in which the love-passages between Zeferino Sanjurjo and Gloria Bermúdez are set off with elaborate, romantic descriptions of Seville.El Cuarto poder(1888) is, as its name implies, concerned with the details, not always edifying, of journalistic life. Two novels issued in 1892,La EspumaandLa Fe,were enthusiastically praised in foreign countries, but in Spain their reception was cold... Subsequently Palacio Valdés returned to his earlier and better manner inLos Majos de Cádiz(1896) and inLa Alegría del Capitán Ribot(1899). In these novels, and still more inTristán, ó el pesimismo(1906), he frees himself from the reproach of undue submission to French influences. In any case he takes a prominent place in modern Spanish literature as a keen analyst of emotion and a sympathetic, delicate, humorous observer.[1]

Palacio was elected to seatkof theReal Academia Españolaon 3 May 1906, he took up his seat on 12 December 1920.[2]

A collection[which?]of his short stories appeared inEnglishtranslation in 1935.

Works

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Marta y María,byAmado González Hevia[es],known as "Favila"
  • Semblanzas literarias(1871)
  • Los oradores del Ateneo(1878)
  • El nuevo viaje al Parnaso(1879)
  • La literatura en(1881), withLeopoldo 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

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In Spanish

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Notes

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  1. ^Elected on 3 May 1906

References

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  1. ^abcOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James(1911). "Palacio Valdés, Armando".InChisholm, Hugh(ed.).Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 22–523.
  2. ^"Armando Palacio Valdés - letra k".Real Academia Española(in Spanish).Retrieved26 May2023.
  • Diccionario de literatura española.Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1964.
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