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VALERA Y ALCALD GALIANO, JUAN - LoveToKnow Article on VALERA Y ALCALD GALIANO, JUAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | VALERA Y ALCALA GALIANO, JUAN (1824-1905), Spanish novelist, son of a retired commodore, Jose Valera, who married Dona Dolores Alcala Galiano, marquesa de la Paniega, widow of a Swiss general named Freuller, was born on the i8th of October 1824 at Cabra (Cordova). |
 | | Valera, in effect, refused to criticize contemporary literature; as a rival author it seemed to him an indelicacy to censure his competitors, and he was either laudatory or silent. |
 | | Valera, then, excelled neither as a poet nor as an impartial critic; he had the vocation of the novelist, though he was slow in discovering it, since he was in his fiftieth year before be published the novel which was to make him famous. |
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