Luis Coloma
Luis Coloma (Jerez de la Frontera, January 1851 - Madrid, 1914) was a Spanish author known for creating the character Ratoncito Pérez.[1] Coloma was also a prolific writer of short stories and his complete works, which includes his novels, biographies, and other works, have since been collected in a multi-volume set.[2] He studied at the University of Seville, where he graduated with a Master's degree in law, although he never got to practice law. In 1908 Coloma became a member of the Real Academia.
Pequeñeces
In 1880 Coloma began work on Pequeñeces on behalf of the Society of Jesus.[3] The work is a political satire of the high Madrid society in the years previous to the Bourbon Restoration, and is considered to be one of his more well known works.[4] This work has received much criticism, as some felt that it was overly pessimistic and "too narrowly bigoted in tone to have any lasting vogue".[5][6]
Coloma promoted literature but was critical of novels in general, as he felt that they gave an overly idealized portrayal of human life and sentimentalized religion.[3][4] In his later years Coloma only published biographies and writings of a historical nature, such as Jeromín, which focused on Don Juan de Austria.
Adaptations
Several of Coloma's works have been adapted into film and for television. Boy has been adapted into a feature film twice, once in 1926 and again in 1940. Pequeñeces was adapted into a 1971 television series as well as a 1976 film.
Bibliography
- Complete Works, Madrid: Editorial Reason and Faith, 1942, 19 vols. 2 novels, 41 short stories, 6 historical biographies, academic discourse and two religious books
- Solaces de un estudiante (1871)
- Lecturas recreativas (1884)
- Pequeñeces (Trivialities) (1890-1891) kn El Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús[7]
- Cuentos para niños (1890) in El Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús
- Retratos de antaño (1895)
- Boy (1895-1896)
- La reina mártir (1898), biography of María Estuardo
- Jeromín (1902), novel about the life of Juan de Austria
- El marqués de Mora (1903)
- Recuerdos de Fernán Caballero (1910)
- Fray Francisco (1911), biography of Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
References
- ^ "Google homenajea con un "doodle" a Luis Coloma, padre del Ratoncito Pérez". ABC.es. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
- ^ Germán Bleiberg, Maureen Ihrie, Janet Pérez (1993). Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula, Volume 1. Greenwood Press. pp. 420, 421, 585. ISBN 0313287317.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Mariano Baquero Goyanes, Ana Luisa Baquero Escudero (1992). El cuento español: del romanticismo al realismo. Consejo Superior De Investigaciones. pp. 79–86. ISBN 8400072138.
- ^ a b Valis, Noël Maureen (2010). Sacred Realism: Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative. Yale University Press. pp. 9, 23. ISBN 0300152345.
- ^ Richard Eugene Chandler, Kessel Schwartz (1991). A New History of Spanish Literature. Louisiana State University Press. p. 147. ISBN 0807117358.
- ^ Higgin, L (1902). Spanish Life in Town and Country, Including Portuguese Life in Town and Country. Cosimo Classics (reprint). p. 252. ISBN 1596058676.
- ^ Maurice Hemingway, Anthony Hedley Clark (1999). A Further Range: Studies in Modern Spanish Literature from Galdós to Unamuno. University of Exeter Press. pp. 205–218. ISBN 0859895750.
External links
- Author portal at the Biblioteca virtual Miguel de Cervantes
- Works by Luis Coloma at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Luis Coloma at Internet Archive
- Works by Luis Coloma at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Works by Luis Coloma at Open Library
- Google Doodle in honor of Coloma's 161st birthday
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