Pedro antonio de alarcon biography of abraham

  • Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza was a 19th century Spanish novelist, author of the novel El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-Cornered Hat, 1874).
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  • ALARCON 51.

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    El Afrancesado

    Translacin por Brandi Nicolls

    In 1808, Spain was subject to the Napoleon Domination. But, inspired bygd patriotic love, the Spanish people rose against the French invaders in a bloody struggle that lasted until 1814 (The Independence War). However, some Spanish that belonged to the ruling classes sympathized with the French. These <<afrancesados (people that sympathized with the French) followed the game of Napoleon, or basically, they were his obedient servants. Garcia de Paredes appeared to be Pro-French. This story, written bygd Pedro Antonio de Alarcon (1833 1891), leaves his charming collection of national stories Parte inom In the small town of Padrn, located in Galicia, and there back in 1808, sold toads and snakes and rain water, outside of a legitimate apothecary, a certain Garca dem Paredes, misanthropic bachelor, a descendant perhaps, without anything, of that illustrious man who killed a bull in one blow It was a cold and dreary autumn night. The sky w

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    THE MEXICAN BACKGROUND OF ALARCON

    I. The Tradition of the Drama in Mexico during the Sixteenth Century

    It is generally conceded that what differentiates the best work of Alarcón from that of his contemporaries in Spain is the serious moral purpose and the very practical code of morality that he develops. His best plays are also marked bygd realism of plot and characterization. They are, moreover, remarkably clean and free from objectionable éléments. This is the spirit of his best plays and this is the spirit, too, of sixteenth century Mexico as he knew it.

    It must be remembered that Alarcón grew up in a part of the world and in a city where the Spanish élément of the population was but a handful compared with the large numbers of Indians, mestizos and criollos1. It wás not a gemenskap, therefore, dominated by purely Spanish traditions. A great missionary work was going on among the Indians in and around Mexico City under the aegis of the Franciscan Order.

    In 1524 twelve Franciscan

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