biography
pronunciation:
[mah(r)keena]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1879–1946)
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| biography:
| Catalan playwright and Modernist poet, who wrote in Castilian, born in Barcelona, NE Spain. His early poems, such as Odas (1900) and Las vendimias (1901), are distinguished by formal excellence. In Canciones del momento (1910) and Tierras de España (1914) he accepts the '98 view of the deterioration of Spain and the Spanish. But it is as a playwright that he is remembered, for the dramatization of popular legends: Las hijas del Cid (1908) and Doña María la Brava (1909), followed by En Flandes se ha puesto el sol (1910), Alondra (1918), La extraña (1921), and Teresa de Jesús (1938). The Obras completas (8 vols, 1944) includes his valuable biography. Less successful were his novels, La caravana (1907), Almas anónimas (1908), and Maternidad (1917). |
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