biography
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Urabayen, Félix Guindoerena
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pronunciation:
[oorabayen]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1884–1943)
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| biography:
| Essayist and novelist of the Toledo region, born in Ulzurrun, Navarra, N Spain. He taught in the Escuela Normal. His novels, such as Toledo: piedad (1920) and La última cigüeña (1921), showed an attitude to Spain unaffected by noventayochismo. Urabayen was enraptured by Spain's ideal history and romanticized landscapes, as in Por los senderos del mundo creyente (1929), the paths in question being the five great aisles of Toledo Cathedral. The rest of the essays in this book are devoted to a lyrical account of Toledo and environs: Yepes, los Cigarrales, Almorox, and the castle of Escalona. El barrio maldito (1925) is a novel of the Barrio de Lozate, a mile from Arizcun in the Baztan valley, maldito because it was the dwelling of the cagots, who are descended from leper colonies and were not allowed to intermarry with the Basques until the end of the 19th c. |
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