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Ana María Matute
Also known as: Ana Mara Matute, Ana Marma Matute
Ana María Matute Ausejo (Spanish: [ˈana maˈɾia maˈtute awˈsexo]; 26 July 1925 – 25 June 2014) was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War.
Most acclaimed
Algunos muchachos
'Algunos muchachos reune siete narraciones cortas. En ellas se habla de ninos, de adolescentes en su transito definitivo hacia la vida adulta. De muchachos que no quieren crecer y se aferran a ese universo de sutiles y maliciosas sabidurias que esconde la infancia y a su desgarrado descaro. La astucia de EI Galgo en una historia entre fantastica y real 'Algunos mu- chachos'; el pequeno rebelde que quiere incendiar su casa 'Muy contento'; la redactora de un infantil diario intimo 'Cuaderno para cuentas'; la rara personalidad de Claudia 'No tocar'; el misterioso halo que envuelve a Ferbe 'EI rey de los zennos'; el rencor del protagonista de 'Retrato del joven K' o la patetica figura de Adela 'Una estrella en la piel' atraviesan estas paginas. Complices, furtivos o asombrados, estos muchachos aparecen en toda la riqueza de su sensibilidad a traves de la prosa lirica, hiriente y desoladamente luminosa de Ana Maria Matute."--Book's back cover.
Obra completa
1996
Don Juan (Spanish: [doŋ ˈxwan]), also known as Don Giovanni (Italian), is a legendary fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. The original version of the story of Don Juan appears in the 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina. The play includes most of the elements found and later adapted in subsequent works, including the setting (Seville), the characters (Don Juan, his servant, his love interest, and her father, whom he kills), moralistic themes (honor, violence and seduction, vice and retribution), and the dramatic ending in which Don Juan dines with and is then dragged down to hell by the stone statue of the father he had previously slain. Tirso de Molina's play was subsequently adapted into numerous plays and poems, of which the most famous include a 1665 play, Dom Juan, by Molière; a 1787 opera, Don Giovanni, with music by Mozart and a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte largely adapting Tirso de Molina's play; a satirical and epic poem, Don Juan, by Lord Byron; and Don Juan Tenorio, a romantic play by José Zorrilla. By linguistic extension, from the name of the character, "Don Juan" has become a generic expression for a womanizer, and stemming from this, Don Juanism is a non-clinical psychiatric descriptor.