Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is De Alarcón and the second or maternal family name is Ariza.

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Portrait published 1898
Born	Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (1833-03-10)10 March 1833 Guadix, Spain
Died	19 July 1891(1891-07-19) (aged 58) Madrid, Spain
Resting place	Cementerio de San Justo
Occupation	Novelist
Language	Spanish
Nationality	Spanish
Literary movement	Literary realism
Seat H of the Real Academia Española
In office 25 February 1877 – 19 July 1891
Preceded by	Fermín de la Puente y Apezechea
Succeeded by	Francisco Asenjo Barbieri

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (10 March 1833 – 19 July 1891) was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, known best for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of popular traditions which provides a description of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia. It was the basis for Hugo Wolf's opera Der Corregidor (1897); for Riccardo Zandonai's opera La farsa amorosa (1933); and Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat (1919).

Alarcón wrote another popular short novel, El capitán Veneno ('Captain Poison', 1881). He produced four other full-length novels. One of these novels, El escándalo ('The Scandal', 1875), became noted for its keen psychological insights. Alarcón also wrote three travel books and many short stories and essays.

Alarcón was born in Guadix, near Granada. In 1859, he served in the Hispano-Moroccan War. He gained his first literary recognition with Diary of a Witness to the African War, a patriotic account of the campaign.

Works

• Cuentos amatorios.
• El final de Norma: novela (1855).
• Descubrimiento y paso del cabo de Buena Esperanza (1857).
• Diario de un testigo de la Guerra de África (1859).
• De Madrid a Nápoles (1860).
• Dos ángeles caídos y otros escritos olvidados.
• El amigo de la muerte: cuento fantástico (1852).
• El año en Spitzberg.
• El capitán Veneno: novela.
• El clavo.
• El coro de Angeles (1858).
• La Alpujarra (1873).
• El sombrero de tres picos: novela corta (1874).
• El escándalo (1875)
• El extranjero.
• El niño de la Bola (1880).
• Historietas nacionales.
• Juicios literarios y artísticos.
• La Alpujarra: sesenta leguas a caballo precedidas de seis en diligencia.
• La Comendadora.
• La mujer alta: cuento de miedo.
• La pródiga.
• Lo que se oye desde una silla del Prado.
• Los ojos negros.
• Los seis velos.
• Moros y cristianos.
• Narraciones inverosímiles.
• Obras literarias de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Volumen 2
• Obras literarias de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Volumen 1
• Obras literarias de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Volumen 3
• Poesías serias y humorísticas
• Soy, tengo y quiero.
• Viajes por España.
• Últimos escritos.

References

• World Book encyclopedia 1988

External links

• Works by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Pedro Antonio de Alarcón at the Internet Archive
• Works by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Las Dos Glorias in Spanish with English translation
• Pedro Antonio de Alarcón at Library of Congress, with 186 library catalogue records