biography
| name: |
Masip Roca, Paulino
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pronunciation:
[maseep rohka]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1900–63)
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| biography:
| Novelist, poet, playwright, and journalist, born in Granadella, Lérida, NE Spain. Of republican sympathies, he emigrated to Mexico in 1939. His principal plays are El báculo y el paraguas (1930), La frontera (1932), El emplazado (1949), and El escándalo (c.1952), but he is better known as a novelist. His most important work, classed by Nora with Gironella's Los cipreses creen en Dios, is the Civil War novel El diario de Hamlet García (1944), in which he makes his points indirectly, through his protagonist's inability to comprehend the events in the Madrid of 1936. La aventura de Marta Abril (1953) and the four short novels in La trampa (1954) revealed him to be essentially a one-book writer. |
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