Pedro antonio de alarcon biography of rory

He was a member of the famous Cuerda Granadina Granada Club , a group of dissident young artists and bohemians. His first novel, El final de Norma ; The End of Norma , an extravagant, adolescent work about the love of a violinist for a singer, attests to his romantic temperament. In he served with the army in Morocco during Spain's war with the Moors; he described his experiences in Diario de un testigo en la guerra de Africa ; Diary of a Witness of the African War.

He became a conservative and a staunch defender of religion and embarked upon a political career. In he was elected a deputy to the Cortes, and after the revolution of , which ended the reign of Isabella II , he was appointed minister to Sweden but renounced the post before serving. He became a member of the Council of State in This novel, based on a popular ballad, presents a vivid, detailed picture of Andalusia in the days of Charles IV.

The colorful setting, fast pace, and wit inspired Manuel de Falla 's ballet as well as operas in French, German, and English. They are too moralistic and melodramatic. In his autobiography he remarked bitterly on the adverse criticism many of his books had received. In the Spanish capital he wrote some plays. Grenadine rope , of liberal tendency.

In he directed The Echo of the West , a combative newspaper with which he ventured into both journalism and political struggles. Later he returned to Madrid where he founded The whip , another newspaper with a sarcastic tone and with a marked anti-monarchical and anti-clerical position. After these beginnings in scathing journalism, he published his first novel, entitled The end of Norma.

These stories were later compiled into story books. Although part of the critics celebrated his work, he also had his detractors, more because of a clash of political tendencies than because of contempt for the quality of his writings. On November 5, his first play was premiered, The prodigal son. This piece also got a good reception although it was censored in some theaters by critics with an ideology contrary to the author's and was very successful at the box office, with which the author could be financially comfortable.

In October of that year he joined the Ciudad Rodrigo hunter squad. The chronicles he wrote in the campaigns were published in the newspaper The Universal Museum. They were later compiled under the title Diary of a witness to the war in Africa , which was successfully sold throughout Spain and considerably increased the fame of its author. In he returned from the war in Africa and was decorated by the government of the Liberal Union.

Pedro antonio de alarcon biography of rory

After a brief stay in Madrid, he undertook a new trip to Italy that resulted in the publication in of another unique travel diary entitled Madrid to Naples. Some years later, in he published his only collection of poems, entitled Serious and humorous poetry. In he did the same with a third compendium of travel chronicles, La Alpujarra: sixty leagues on horseback preceded by six by stagecoach , in which descriptions and stories about the province of Granada were collected.

During the first half of the s, the writer actively participated in Madrid's political life. He also founded the newspaper Politics in the Spanish capital. He graduated at the university of Granada, studied law and theology privately, and made his first appearance as a dramatist before he was of age. Deciding to follow literature as a profession, he joined with Torcuato Tfrrago y Mateos in editing a Cadiz newspaper entitled El Eco de Occidente.

In he travelled to Madrid in the hope of finding a publisher for his continuation of Espronceda's celebrated poem, El Diablo Mundo. Disappointed in his object, and finding no opening at the capital, he settled at Granada, became a radical journalist in that city, and showed so much ability that in he was appointed editor of a republican journal, El Ldtigo, published at Madrid.

The extreme violence of his polemics led to a duel between him and the Byronic poet, Jose Heriberto Garcia Quevedo. The earliest of his novels, El Final de Norma, was published in , and though its construction is feeble it brought the writer into notice as a master of elegant prose. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.

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