Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de | Cyrus DeCoster (essay date 1979)
Cyrus DeCoster (essay date 1979)
SOURCE: DeCoster, Cyrus. “Short Stories” and “Cuadros de Costambres.” In Pedro Antonio de Alarcón pp. 32-58. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1979.
[In the excerpt below, DeCoster provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of Alarcón's short fiction and sketches.]
Between 1852 and 1854 Alarcón wrote short pieces of all sorts for El Eco de Occidente, mostly stories, costumbrista sketches, and poems. I was unable to locate the issues of El Eco de Occidente published in Cádiz in 1852-53.1 The first versions of the stories “El amigo de la muerte,” “La buenaventura,” “El clavo,” and “La cruz de palo” appeared in it; what else, one cannot say. The issues published in Granada in 1854 were collected in a volume and are readily available.2 Alarcón left Granada in July of that year, and after a month's hiatus, Salvador de Salvador took over the...
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