Manuel González Prada
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Jose Manuel de los Reyes González de Prada y Ulloa (Lima, January 5, 1844 – Lima, July 22, 1918) was a Peruvian politician and anarchist, literary critic and director of the National Library of Peru. The first writer to criticize the oligarchy within Peru,[1] he is well remembered as a social critic who helped develop Peruvian intellectual thought in the early twentieth century, as well as the academic style known as modernismo.
Manuel González Prada | |
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Born | (1844-01-05)January 5, 1844 |
Died | July 22, 1918(1918-07-22) (aged 74) Lima, Peru |
Burial place | Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro 12.042852552053436°S 77.00957408578998°W / -12.042852552053436; -77.00957408578998 |
Alma mater | Real Convictorio de San Carlos |
Known for | Influences on indigenismo and Peruvian nationalism |
Political party | National Union |
He was born into the aristocratic class.[2] He was close in spirit to Clorinda Matto de Turner whose first novel, Torn from the Nest approached political indigenismo, and to Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, who like González Prada, practiced a positivism sui generis.