Armando Palacio Valdés

Armando Francisco Bonifacio Palacio y Rodríguez-Valdés was a Spanish novelist and critic.

Biography

Palacio was born at Entrialgo in the province of Asturias 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, Los Novelistas españoles, Nuevo viaje al Parnaso and La Literatura en 1881, 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, 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 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
Los oradores del Ateneo
El nuevo viaje al Parnaso
La literatura en, with Leopoldo Alas
El señorito Octavio
Marta y María
Aguas fuertes
El idilio de un enfermo
José
Riverita
Maximina
El cuarto poder
La hermana San Sulpicio
La espuma
La espuma
La fe
El maestrante
El Orígen del Pensamiento
Los majos de Cádiz
La alegría del capitán Ribot
Tristán o el pesimismo
La aldea perdida
Los papeles del doctor Angélico
Años de juventud del doctor Angélico
La novela de un novelista
Cuentos escogidos
La hija de Natalia
El pájaro en la nieve y otros cuentos
Santa Rogelia
Los cármenes de Granada
Testamento literario
Sinfonía pastoral
El gobierno de las mujeres
Obras completas
Álbum de un viejo
''El Crimen en Calle de la Perseguida''

In English

Literary realism: General vision of the movement
Spanish literature: Evolution of Spanish literature

In Spanish

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