biography
| name: |
Pérez de Ayala, Ramón
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pronunciation:
[peres, ayahla]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1881–1962)
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| biography:
| Novelist, poet, and critic, born in Oviedo, NW Spain. He first attracted attention with his poetry when La Paz del sendero (The Peace of the Path) was published in 1904. A sequel volume appeared in 1916 under the title El Sendero innumerable. As a novelist he combines realism with beauty, best shown in the philosophical Belarmino y Apolonio (1921). Other novels include Tigre Juan (1924), which with El Curandero de ru honra appeared in English as Tiger Juan (1933). |
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