biography
pronunciation:
[treegoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1865–1916)
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| biography:
| Popular novelist, born in Vilanueva de la Serena, Badajoz, SW Spain, who is classed with Zamacois as an erotic novelist. Though his professed intentions were high and moral, he was read for his love stories and earned a great deal of money from them, including 100 000 pesetas for Las ingenuas (1901). The success of his sub-Kiplingesque debut, set in India, was the first of many, including La sed de amar (1901), Alma en los labios (1902), Del frío al fuego (1903), La altísima (1903), La bruta (1904), and the novel of hypocrisy and honour, Sor Demonio (1905). Among many others was his autobiographical account of a medical student, En la carrera (1906), completed by El médico rural (1912) and set in Andalusia where he had worked as an army doctor. He committed suicide at the height of his popularity in 1916. |
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