Geometría Moral: Con Una Carta-Prólogo De Don Juan Valera (Spanish Edition)
(This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before ...)
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++
The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++
Catilinarias
2
Juan Montalvo
Tip. La Unión, 1891
Ecuador
Capitulos que se le olvidaron a Cervantes (Letras Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition)
(El escritor ecuatoriano Juan Montalvo nos avisa en el tit...)
El escritor ecuatoriano Juan Montalvo nos avisa en el titulo del prologo de esta obra su intencion de escribir un " Ensayo de imitacion de un libro inimitable " . Emular, que no copiar o imitar, es lo que " humildemente " se propone Montalvo al resucitar a Don Quijote y a su escudero, y lanzarlos a vagar nuevamente por la Peninsula en busca de aventuras con gigantes, caballeros y seres encantados. Adelantandose a Pierre Menard siguio, sin embargo, los mismos metodos que el personaje de Borges para sustituir a Cervantes, redactar lo que le faltaba a su magna obra y seguir, no obstante, siendo Juan Montalvo y llegar al «Quijote». En los «Capitulos que se le olvidaron a Cervantes» encontramos una mezcla de las innumerables tendencias personales de su autor: amor a los clasicos, veneracion y culto por la lengua espanola, sentido etico y moral de la vida humana, espiritu combativo, estilo ensayistico con incursiones en la poesia y la narrativa, quijotismo personal, deseo de un mundo mejor, critica de ciertas posturas politicas y religiosas, humor castellano popular, derroche de erudicion y capacidad para la digresion.
Juan María Montalvo Fiallos was an Ecuadorian writer, author and essayist.
Background
Montalvo was born on April 13, 1832 in Ambato, Ecuador. His grandfather was a Spanish retail merchant, and his father, Marcos, followed the same trade. His mother, Josefa Fiallos, owned some land. Two elder brothers of Juan moved to Quito and came to occupy high positions in education and government.
Education
Montalvo studied in Quito (1846-1854) but dropped out of the university without earning a degree.
Career
The connections of his brothers with Gen. José María Urbina, a Liberal who dominated Ecuadorian politics in the 1850, resulted in Montalvo's appointment to a minor diplomatic post in Rome (1857). The following year he was promoted to secretary of the Ecuadorian legation in Paris. He returned to Ecuador in 1860. By then the Liberals had been ousted by the Conservatives, led by Gabriel García Moreno, and Montalvo was excluded from public employment. In January 1866 Montalvo published in Quito the first number of a pamphlet series against García Moreno - then out of power-under the title of El cosmopolita. Three years later, on the dictator's return to the presidency, Montalvo fled to Colombia, settling in Ipiales. Montalvo spent his years in exile, he received economic support from another exiled Liberal, living then in Panama, Eloy Alfaro. During this period Montalvo's writing consisted mostly of vitriolic and defamatory attacks on García Moreno. When the latter decided to stay as president for a third term, Montalvo wrote La dictadura perpetua, which Alfaro published in Panama (1874). The pamphlet circulated in Ecuador. Though it did not produce the hoped-for revolution, on August 6, 1875, a Colombian former mercenary, backed up by a small group of young drifters who had read La dictadura, hacked García Moreno to death with a machete. Montalvo returned to Quito in May 1876 and started to publish El regenerador, a pamphlet series in which he attacked President Antonio Borrero's government. By September he was in Guayaquil, backing a Liberal military revolt led by Gen. Urbina and Gen. Ignacio Veintemilla. The latter, a fellow exile of 1869, soon sent Montalvo to Panama for his opposition to the general's dictatorial ambitions. He was allowed to return after 4 months, thanks to his attacks against Borrero, which also assured his appointment as deputy to the constitutional convention of 1878. But in June he turned his guns on President Veintemilla, deploring that a great man like García Moreno should have such a despicable successor. Before long, Montalvo was back in Ipiales, where he wrote his Catilinarias. This attack on Veintemilla is Montalvo's outstanding polemical work. In 1881 Montalvo returned to Paris. He stayed there for the remainder of his life, except for a trip in 1883 to Spain, where he was very well received by distinguished figures of Spanish letters and politics. This last period was marked by the publication of his best works: Siete tratados and Capítulos que se le olvidaron a Cervantes. He died on January 17, 1889. Montalvo's fame rested on the stylistic qualities of his writing-much in vogue until the beginning of the 20th century-and on their political content, for which he was hailed by liberals all over Hispanic America. His name is still venerated in Ecuador, even though his writing has much declined in its appeal because of changes in stylistic preferences and in political outlook.
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
Politics
A political liberal, Montalvo's beliefs were marked by anti-clericalism and a keen hatred for the two caudillos that ruled Ecuador during his life: Gabriel García Moreno and Ignacio de Veintemilla. Montalvo was also a dedicated champion of democracy.
Connections
Montalvo married María Guzmán Suárez in Ambato on October 17, 1868 and had two children with her. In 1882 he met Augustine Contoux with whom he had one child.