Azorín

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Azorín is a pseudonym of Spanish writer Jose Martin Ruiz, a member of the Spanish Generation of '98.

He was born in Monover, Alicante in 1873 and died in 1967. Its father was natural of Yecla and soldier in the conservative party (came he be mayor, representative and follower of Romero Robledo). It practiced law in Monóvar; possessed an important estate; the mother there was born in Petrer. It was a middle-class traditional family and accommodated. Azorín was the major of nine brothers. It studied internal degree for eight years in the school of the Escolapios of Yecla, phase that reflects in its two first novels, of hardly autobiographical content. From 1888 to 1896 to it studied straight in Valencia, where is interested for the Krausismo and the anarchism and delivers to feverish political and literary readings. They begin their journalistic first steps. It uses the pseudonyms of Fray José, in The Catholic Education of Petrer, Juan of Lily in The Defender of Yecla etc. It writes also in The Echo of Monóvar, The Commercial Valencian one and even in The Town, newspaper of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Almost always it does theatrical criticism of works of hardly social content (praises the works of Angel Guimerá and Benito Pérez Galdós or the Juan José of Joaquín Dicenta) and already reflects its anarchist inclinations. It translates the drama The intrusive one of Maurice Maeterlink, the conference of the French one A. Hamon Of the country or The prisons of the prince Kropotkin. In 1895 Azorín publishes two trials, literary Anarchists and social Notes, in which presents al public the main anarchist theories.