Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
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Pedro Antonio de Alarcón | |
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 Portrait published 1898 | |
| Born | Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza 10 March 1833 Guadix, Spain |
| Died | 19 July 1891 (aged 58) Madrid, Spain |
| Resting place | Cementerio de San Justo |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | Spanish |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Literary movement | Literary realism |
| Seat H of the Real Academia Española | |
| In office 25 February 1877 – 19 July 1891 | |
| Preceded by | Fermín de la Puente y Apezechea |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Asenjo Barbieri |
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (10 March 1833 – 19 July 1891) was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, known best for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of popular traditions which provides a description of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia. It was the basis for Hugo Wolf's opera Der Corregidor (1897); for Riccardo Zandonai's opera La farsa amorosa (1933); and Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat (1919).
Alarcón wrote another popular short novel, El capitán Veneno ('Captain Poison', 1881). He produced four other full-length novels. One of these novels, El escándalo ('The Scandal', 1875), became noted for its keen psychological insights. Alarcón also wrote three travel books and many short stories and essays.[1]
Alarcón was born in Guadix, near Granada. In 1859, he served in the Hispano-Moroccan War. He gained his first literary recognition with Diary of a Witness to the African War, a patriotic account of the campaign.
Works
[edit]- Cuentos amatorios.
- El final de Norma: novela (1855).
- Descubrimiento y paso del cabo de Buena Esperanza (1857).
- Diario de un testigo de la Guerra de África (1859).
- De Madrid a Nápoles (1860).
- Dos ángeles caídos y otros escritos olvidados.
- El amigo de la muerte: cuento fantástico (1852).
- El año en Spitzberg.
- El capitán Veneno: novela.
- El clavo.
- El coro de Angeles (1858).
- La Alpujarra (1873).
- El sombrero de tres picos: novela corta (1874).
- El escándalo (1875)
- El extranjero.
- El niño de la Bola (1880).
- Historietas nacionales.
- Juicios literarios y artísticos.
- La Alpujarra: sesenta leguas a caballo precedidas de seis en diligencia.
- La Comendadora.
- La mujer alta: cuento de miedo.
- La pródiga.
- Lo que se oye desde una silla del Prado.
- Los ojos negros.
- Los seis velos.
- Moros y cristianos.
- Narraciones inverosímiles.
- Obras literarias de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Volumen 2
- Obras literarias de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Volumen 1
- Obras literarias de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Volumen 3
- Poesías serias y humorísticas
- Soy, tengo y quiero.
- Viajes por España.
- Últimos escritos.
References
[edit]- ^ "Pedro Antonio de Alarcón - letra H". Real Academia Española (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- World Book encyclopedia 1988
External links
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| Works at Cervantes Virtual |
- Works by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Pedro Antonio de Alarcón at the Internet Archive
- Works by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Las Dos Glorias in Spanish with English translation
- Pedro Antonio de Alarcón at Library of Congress, with 186 library catalogue records
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