biography
| name: |
López Pinillos, José
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pronunciation:
[lohpeth pineelyos
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1875–1922)
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| biography:
| Novelist and dramatist, born in Sevilla, SW Spain. Having abandoned the study of law for financial reasons, he went to Madrid in 1900 but was dismissed from the Civil Service for ‘ideas avanzadas’. He then earned his living by journalism and writing plays under the pseudonym Parmeno. His first novel was La sangre de Cristo (1907), set in the backward village el Candil, in Extremadura. Crude realism in both dialogue and situation also marks his later novels: Doña Mesalina (1910), El ladronzuelo (1911), Las águilas (1911), Frente al mar (1914), Ojo por ojo (1915), El luchador (1916), and Cintas rojas (1916). The social, even redeeming mission of his work is equally evident in his plays: Hacia la dicha (1910), La casta (1912), El pantano (1913), La otra vida (1915), the violent Esclavitud (1918), and Embrujamiento (1922). His weaknesses are carelessness in construction and a failure of self-criticism leading to excessive violence. |
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