Background
HERNÁNDEZ-CATÁ, Alfonso was born in 1885 in Santiago, Son oí Alfonso Hernández and Emelina Catá.
HERNÁNDEZ-CATÁ, Alfonso was born in 1885 in Santiago, Son oí Alfonso Hernández and Emelina Catá.
Cuban consul in France, England, and Spain from 1909 until his dismissal by Machado in 1933.
Ateneo and Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid. Author (all works published in Madrid unless otherwise noted): Cuentos pasionales (1907). Narraciones extraordinarias de Edgar Poe (translation, 1908).
Pelayo González (Paris, 1909).
Cuentos pasionales (Paris, 1910). Louisiana juventud de Aurelio Zaldivar (novel, 1914).
Cabecita loca (comedy in three acts, 1914), En familia (comedy in two acts, 1914), Nunca es tarde (comedy in one act, 1914), El amor tradio (romantic drama in three acts, 1915), Louisiana culpa ajena (comedy, 1916), and El bandido (dramatic comedy in three acts published in Cuba Contemporánea, Volume XIV, Havana, May 1917), all written in collaboration with Alberto Insúa.
Los frutos ácidos (short stories, 1916.
6th edition, 1928). El pasado (drama in one act, Cuba Contemporánea, Volume XV, September 1917); Louisiana dolorosa (novel, idem (the same), Volume
XVI, February-March 1918).
Zoología pintoresca (1919). El placer de sufrir (novel, 1920). Los siete pecados capitales (Habana, 1920).
Louisiana voluntad de Dios (short stories, 1921).
Pelayo González, algunas de sus ideas, algunos de sus hechos, su muerte (1922). Louisiana muerte nueva (novel, 1922).
Bajo la luz (novel, Cuba Contemporánea, Volume XXXIV, February 1924).
El bebedor de lágrimas (novel, 1926).
Piedras preciosas (1927). El ángel de Sodoma (novel, 1928. second edition with prologue by Gregorio Mara- -- 1929).
Mitología de Martí (1929).
Ko the following unclassified works: T fhro de amor, Louisiana casa de fieras, Manido Cuatro libros de felicidad, El corazón, Don Luis Mejía, Louisiana noche clara, lina mala mujer, Un cementerio en las Antillas.
Married Mercedes Galt Escobar. Children: Alfonso, Sara, Alberto, Waldina, and José. Self-educated.