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In his realistic works he is a careful observer and a faithful describer of life, and he is especially successful in his portrayal of the uneventful lives of the middle and lower classes.
However, the Spanish critics usually narrow the class to include only the dramas of Lope which deal with the lower strata of social life and make the error of classing the Moza de Cántaro among them.
His best stories are probably El sombrero de tres picos, El capitán Veneno, and some of his Novelas cortas. Of the lesser writers of stories of manners and customs, Antonio de Trueba and Narciso Campillo should receive especial mention. A journalist, poet, and writer of short stories, Trueba is best known as an interpreter of Basque life.
Though a conservative and a monarchist, he loved the common people, and he delighted in describing their customs and in collecting their traditions. In his tales of manners and customs he idealized the simple life of the country folk almost beyond recognition, and he worked over and embellished their traditions to suit his taste.
Por lo demás, la compasión hacia los negros esclavos acaso se pudiese probar que ha sido más tardía que en nuestra raza en la raza anglo-sajona, que bastante tiempo ha sido negrera, y donde aún, en el presente siglo, se inventan teorías tan filantrópicas y consoladoras, como la de Malthus y la del Struggle for life.
Vivía entre el beau monde, formaba parte integrante de la high life; el pueblo la atacaba los nervios; huía de la multitud por miedo al mal olor, y si en otros tiempos la hubiesen llamado ciudadana, habríase muerto del susto.
Works: La gaviota , called in the English version The Lost Beauty, Lágrimas , La familia de Alvareda , Una en otra , Clemencia , Cuadros de costumbres , et al. Returned to live in Polanco. Carlist deputy to the Cortes in 1871, but found political life distasteful. Elected to the Spanish Academy in 1897. Died March 1, 1906.
"Last night," said he, "will mark a great date in history for the Spanish theatre and for liberty. It is a movement of social and political renovation, Spain demands light and liberty; she demands the right to live under modern, European conditions; she is coming to life."
We find a good example of these different elements in La Moza de Cántaro in the three sonnets of Act II, Scene III, of which the first is in the sonorous, high-sounding, oratorical style, the second, in the elegant conceits so common in Italian literature of the period, and the third in the language of every-day life. Each is well suited to the occasion and to the rôle of the speaker.
De todo lo dicho se infiere que debemos propender á que salgan en España las letras amenas del apartamiento en que viven, con respecto á la generalidad del público, y lo que es más de sentir, con respecto á lo que ahora llaman high life, en cuyos centros rara vez se ve un libro en castellano. Alguna culpa tienen de esto los bibliófilos.
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