biography
pronunciation:
[franthes]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1883–1965)
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| biography:
| Novelist and short-story writer, born in Madrid, Spain. A follower of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, he translated Louÿs, Poe, and Baudelaire. His first novel, El alma viajera, is the story of a disillusioned provincial girl who ignores the example and warning of her aunt, a former cocotte; she finally salvages some sort of life with a failed actor. He then passed to eroticism with La guarida (1911) and to the crime novel El crimen del Kursaal(1911). La danza del corazón (1914) is a superficial treatment of the dilemma between art and life. His later novels include La mujer de nadie (1915), Como los pájaros de bronce (1918), La raíz flotante (1922), El hijo de la noche (1923), and Ella y los demás (1924). Not a subtle writer, he depends heavily on melodrama for his effects. |
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