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His descriptions and delineations of character show that he is a close observer, and that he has a wide knowledge of human life. His novels present an optimistic view of life, though his pictures and characters are not always bright. He is a popular writer both at home and abroad. Many of his novels have been translated into different European languages.
Campillo also collaborated in the collecting and writing of Chascarillos andaluces with Juan Valera, J. López Valdemoro and Dr. Thebussen. Attended the institute at Las Palmas, and in 1863 went to Madrid to read law. A republican deputy in the Cortes. He has also dramatized the following of his novels: Realidad, La loca de la casa, La de San Quentín, Doña Perfecta, et al.
This work, which has probably been the most widely read of all Spanish novels since Don Quijote, marked the transition from romanticism to present-day realism in Spanish literature, as Flaubert's Madame Bovary did in French letters ten years later.
Then taking as a model the historical novels of Erckmann-Chatrian, he began his Episodios Nacionales, which alone fill twenty volumes. Add to this number some thirty volumes of Novelas Contemporáneas, and one sees the monument that Galdós offers us of the wonderful persistence and fertility of his talent.
His works are pervaded by a genial, kindly humor; but his language is not seldom dull and insipid. His prose writings have a light and graceful humor that is peculiarly Andalusian. Of these the first is now usually classed as a writer of psychological novels and plays, and the others as naturalistic novelists.
Armando Palacio Valdés was born in 1853 in the province of Asturias. He is one of the most prominent contemporary novelists of Spain. He belongs to that school of writers known as naturalists, and in the opinion of some, he deserves to stand at the head of that school. His novels treat of contemporary Spanish life.
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