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Gabriel Miró street in Xàbia: the importance of this writer, in «Calle a calle»

11 July 2020 - 01: 00

Xàbia pays tribute to the writer from Alicante with a road in his name between Ronda Sud and Calle Cronista Mossén Febrer, very close to Portal del Clot. Do you stop by often? Have you ever wondered who exactly was and what Gabriel Miró did? We tell you "Street by street".

Gabriel Francisco Víctor Miró Ferrer (1879-1930) was born in Alicante to a wealthy family. The period in which he studied internally at the Colegio de Santo Domingo in Orihuela marked him for life: his negative experience was later reflected in his works Sigüenza Book y Boy and big. Miró studied Law at the universities of València and Granada.

Inspiration in the Marina Alta

In 1901, the same year that he wrote his first novel, Ojeda's wife, he married Clemencia Maignon, daughter of the Consul of France in Alicante, with whom he had two daughters: Olympia and Clemencia. With the Public Works technicians, he travels through the north of the province: two novels are born from this experience, Basting scenes (1903) and Of living (notes of leper places) (1904). This is what is interesting for the Marina Alta: in these novels we find the author's relationship with our region. In fact, the descriptions of Of living they are located in Parcent.

His best-known novel: "The cherries in the cemetery"

His first success came in 1908, when he obtained the prize of the contest called by "El Cuento Semanal" with his short novel Nomadic. The award opens the pages of the Madrid press, where he begins to collaborate. Most critics consider that Gabriel Miró's stage of literary maturity begins with Cherries from the cemetery (1910), where themes such as eroticism, illness and death are found. This novel was brought to television in 2004 by Televisión Española and is the best known.

Miró's professional life combines press collaborations with various public jobs between Alicante, Madrid and Barcelona, ​​while continuing to produce his literary work. In 1926 he published The Leper Bishop, considered one of the best novels of the 1928th century, but which cost him a wave of criticism for the treatment received by the Society of Jesus. Azorín proposed it to occupy a chair at the Royal Spanish Academy, but the anti -ironian campaign was too strong. in XNUMX he writes Years and leagues.

An unfinished novel with a setting in Xàbia

Gabriel Miró was preparing a new novel set in Xàbia, The daughter of that man, when died of appendicitis at just fifty years old. So this novel stayed in a rough draft and never saw the light.

If you want to know more, consult the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library. And if you like to know why the streets of Xàbia bear the names of certain characters, then you have all the articles published:

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