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Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Nineteenth-century Spanish novelist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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).
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Pedro Antonio de Alarcón | |
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Born | Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (1833-03-10)10 March 1833 Guadix, Spain |
Died | 19 July 1891(1891-07-19) (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 [es] |
Succeeded by | Francisco Asenjo Barbieri |
Alarcón wrote another popular short novel, El capitán Veneno [es] ('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 [es], a patriotic account of the campaign.