GALDÓS, writer month

Benito Pérez Galdós is the writer of the month for November at the Can Ventosa Municipal Library, in Ibiza. Novelist, playwright, Spanish chronicler and politician.He is considered one of the best representatives of the 19th century realist novel.

GALDÓS (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 10 de mayo de 1843 – Madrid, 4 of January of 1920) He is one of the most prolific authors of his generation, both in novel and theater. Spanish writer, representative of the Spanish realist novel of the 19th century. Academic of the Royal Academy since 1897 and nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1912. He studies at the Colegio de San Agustín in his city and collaborates in the local newspaper El Omnibus. Upon finishing his studies in 1862, He moves to Tenerife to study the Bachelor of Arts, and later he went to Madrid to study Law. There he goes to the Ateneo gatherings and the Fornos and Suizo cafes., where he frequented intellectuals and artists of the time. Write in the diaries The Nation y The Debate.

en 1873 begins the publication of the first series of the National episodes con Trafalgar. His popularity with readers during the decade of the 90 is growing with its second series of National episodes. Apart from Madrid, Galdós spends long stays in his house in Santander, known as “San Quentin”. Travel through Europe as a press correspondent, thus knowing literary currents of the moment such as realism and naturalism. His work is influenced by the French Honoré de Balzac., Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert and the Englishman Charles Dickens, entre otros.

He joins the Progressive Party of Sagasta and in 1886 He is a representative for Guayama (Puerto Rico) in the courts. At the beginning of the 20th century he joined the Republican Party and the legislatures of 1907 y 1910 He is a deputy to the Cortes for Madrid for the Socialist Republican Conjunction; en 1914 He is elected deputy for Las Palmas.

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