Jacinto Benavente
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| Born | August 12, 1866 Madrid, Spain |
| Died | July 14, 1954 (aged 87) Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Notable award(s) | Nobel Prize in Literature 1922 |
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (August 12, 1866 – July 14, 1954) was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922.
Born in Madrid, the son of a celebrated pediatrician, he returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: declamatory verse giving way to prose, melodrama to comedy, formula to experience, impulsive action to dialogue and the play of minds. Benavente showed a preoccupation with aesthetics and later with ethics.
A liberal monarchist and a critic of Socialism, he was a reluctant supporter of the Franco regime as the only viable alternative to what he considered the disastrous republican experiment of 1931-1936. Benavente died in Aldeaencabo de Escalona (Toledo) at the age of 87. He never married. According to many sources, he was homosexual.[1][2]
[edit] Principal works
Jacinto Benavente wrote 172 works. The most important works are:
- Los intereses creados (1907), comedy involving situations similar to those found in the Commedia dell'arte; it is Benavente's most famous and often performed work. It has been translated as The Bonds of Interest.
- Rosas de otoño (1905), sentimental comedy.
- Señora ama (1908), penetrante estudio psicológico de una mujer asediada por los celos.
- La malquerida (1913), drama.
- La ciudad alegre y confiada (1916), continuation from Los intereses creados.
- Campo de armiño (1916)
- Lecciones de buen amor (1924)
- La mariposa que voló sobre el mar (1926)
- Pepa Doncel (1928)
- Vidas cruzadas (1929)
- Aves y pájaros (1940)
- La honradez de la cerradura (1942)
- La infanzona (1945)
- Titania (1946)
- La infanzona (1947)
- Abdicación (1948)
- Ha llegado Don Juan (1952)
- El alfiler en la boca (1954)
[edit] References
- ^ (Spanish) Villena, Luis Antonio de (ed.) (2002), Amores iguales. Antología de la poesía gay y lésbica, Madrid: La Esfera, ISBN 84-9734-061-2
- ^ (Spanish) Garzón, Juan Ignacio García (14 July 2004), La paradoja del comediógrafo, ABC.es, http://www.abc.es/hemeroteca/historico-14-07-2004/Cultura/la-paradoja-del-comediografo_9622554462354.html, retrieved 2007-09-19
[edit] External links
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- Works by Benavente at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Jacinto Benavente
- Biography and bibliography at the Books and Writers website
- Biography at the Nobel Prize official website
- Biography and bibliography at Noble-Winners.com (unofficial) website
- Brief article in the Columbia Encyclopedia Online
- Encyclopedia of World Biography article, reproduced at BookRags.com
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