Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano

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Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (18 October 1824 – 18 April 1905) was a Spanish realist author, diplomat, and politician.

Life

Heborn at

Throughout his diplomatic and political activity he produced works which rank among the highest that his country's literature contains. For purity of diction and beauty of style Valera has never been surpassed in Spain. Pepita Jiménez, which appeared as a serial in 1874, is probably his best known work; it has since been translated into many languages. It depicts the gradual realization by a young seminarian of the empty vanity of his vocation, culminating in a shattering denouement. Other novels are Las ilusions del doctor Faustino (1875), El comendador Mendoza (1877), Pasarse de listo, and Doña Luz (1879). All of the foregoing novels were written around the time when he abandoned his political activities. He was also a supporter of

Literature

• Juan Valera, Obras Completas (Madrid, 1905 et seq., 43 volumes to 1916)
• Juan Valera, The Illusions of Doctor Faustino, translated by Robert M. Fedorchek. The Catholic University of America Press (2008)
• Juan Valera, Juanita la Larga, translated by Robert M. Fedorchek.
  The Catholic University of America
  (2006)
• Ferdinand Brunetière, La casuistique dans le roman de Juan Valera, in his series Histoire et littérature, volume i (Paris, 1884)
• Emilia Pardo Bazán, "Retratos y apuntes literaros," in Obras completas, volume xxxii (Madrid, 1891 et seq.)
• Conde de Casa Valencia, Necrologia de ... D. J. V. (Madrid, 1905)
• Conde de las Navas, Don Juan Valera (Madrid, 1905)
• J. D. Fitz-Gerald, "Juan Valera," in The Bookman, volume xxi (New York, 1905)
• Karimi, Kian-Harald (2007): Jenseits von altem Gott und ‘Neuem Menschen’. Präsenz und Entzug des Göttlichen im Diskurs der spanischen Restaurationsepoche. Frankf./M.: Vervuert.
  ISBN 3-86527-313-0
• F. Vézinet, Les maitres du roman aspagnol contemporain (Paris, 1907)

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