Ramon Perez de Ayala
Ramón Pérez de Ayala . Spanish writer and diplomat. Ambassador in London during the Republic, after residing for many years in Argentina , he returned to Spain .
Summary
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- 1 Biographical summary
- 1 Literary career
- 2 Works
- 3 Sources
Biographical summary
He belonged to the group of Ortega y Gasset , Gabriel Miró , Gregorio Marañón and Ramón Gómez de la Serna , who inherited the concern for Spain characteristic of the generation of ’98.
After traveling through Italy and Germany , he founded the Group at the Service of the Republic with José Ortega y Gasset and Gregorio Marañón. Ambassador in London between 1931 and 1936 , at the beginning of the Civil War he went into exile in France and South America . He returned to Spain in 1954 .
Literary career
It opened with a book of poems, The Peace of the Path , 1903 ; The innumerable path , 1916 ; and The Walking Path , 1921 ) and the essay ( The Masks , 1917 – 1919 ; Politics and Bulls , 1918 ), but he was essentially a novelist. Although his starting point is modernism, his symbolic and conceptual content separated him from the poetry of the time and gave him a discursive substance that characterizes all of his work.
In his production the intellectual predominates over the realistic; He likes symbolic characters, but with deep humanity, and he leans toward humor. The style is very elaborate.
Plays
- The Fox’s Paw( 1911 )
- Troteras y danzaderas( 1913 ), portrait of Madrid’s literary bohemianism
- Bellarmine and Apollonius(1921)
- The works of Urbano and Simona( 1923 )
- Tigre Juan with his second part
- The healer of his honor( 1926 )