Ángel Ganivet

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Ángel Ganivet

Ángel Ganivet García (born December 13, 1865 in Granada , † November 29, 1898 in Riga ) was a Spanish writer and diplomat . It is generally considered to be the forerunner of the 1898 generation . In his main literary work, the three-part essay Idearium español (1897, German: Spain's worldview and world position ), he tries to work out the main features of the “Spanish character” and the causes for the decline of the Spanish empire.

Life

Ángel Ganivet grew up in a medium-sized family (his father was a craftsman, his mother a miller's daughter). His father died of cancer when he was nine years old and Ángel was taken into the care of his maternal uncle. A year later he almost had to undergo an amputation due to a broken leg , but was able to keep his leg with the help of intensive rehabilitation . He studied law and philology at the University of Granada and began a doctorate in Madrid in 1888 , which he graduated with honors in 1890 with a dissertation on the meaning of Sanskrit after his first dissertation topic, España filosófica contemporánea , had been rejected. In the same year he also completed his law degree with a master's degree. He applied for a position in the Agricultural Library of the Ministerio de Fomento (about: Ministry of Infrastructure), which was also awarded to him, but his application for a Greek professorship at the University of Granada in 1891 failed. Ganivet met a number of writers in the Spanish capital, such as Miguel de Unamuno , with whom he had a close friendship since 1891.

Two children were born from his relationship with Amelia Roldán Llanos: Natalia (* 1893 in Paris ), who died soon after, and Ángel Tristán (* 1894 in Paris).

In 1892 Ganivet was appointed Vice Consul of Antwerp , where he would spend the next four years of his life. In 1895 he received a promotion to consul and was transferred to Helsinki ; he spent two years in Finland , during which he wrote most of his literary works. After that, the Spanish consulate was closed due to a lack of economic contacts between the two countries and Ganivet was transferred to Riga in 1898. There he fell into a psychological crisis and committed suicide on November 29, 1898 after a failed suicide attempt. He threw himself from a ship into the river Daugava , was rescued, but then managed to break free and fell back into the river.

After his death, Ganivet became the national symbol of Spain, which was in depression , a real Ganivet cult arose, he was stylized as a “victim of the fatherland”. The plan that soon emerged to transfer his body to his native city of Granada was finally realized in 1925 under the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera .

plant

Complete edition

  • Obras completas . 10 vols., Madrid, 1923–1930.

essay

  • España filosófica contemporánea (1889); Essay.
  • Granada la bella (1896); Prose. Newer edition: Ed. Fernando García Lara. Granada: Diputación Provincial de Granada, 1996.
  • Cartas finlandesas (1896); Prose.
  • Hombres del norte (1898); Essay.
  • Idearium español (1898); Essay. Newer edition: Ed. E. Inman Fox. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1990.
  • Porvenir de España (1898); Essay.

novel

  • La conquista del reino Maya por el último conquistador Pío Cid (Madrid: Victoriano Suárez, 1896).
  • Los trabajos del infatigable creador Pío Cid (1898).

drama

  • El escultor de su alma (1898); auto sacramental.

German translation

  • Spain's worldview and world position . Only authorized translation by Albert Haas. Preface: August L. Mayer. Munich: Georg Müller, 1921.

literature

  • Martín Martín, Jacinto S .: Dusk in Brunsparken : novel biography Ángel Ganivet. Translated from the Spanish by Julia Möller Runge. Salobreña (Granada): Ed. Alhulia, 1998 (equinox; 4). ISBN 84-95136-04-X .
  • Orringer, Nelson R .: Ganivet (1865-1898) . Madrid: Ediciones del Orto, 1998.
  • Ramsden, Herbert: Ángel Ganivets Idearium Español. A critical study. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1967.
  • Stintzing, Irmgard: Landscape and homeland: Ideological aspects of a literary topic in Maurice Barrès , Ángel Ganivet and Miguel de Unamuno . Frankfurt / M. etc .: Lang, 1976 (Hispanic Studies; Vol. 6). ISBN 3-261-02220-5 .
  • Voges, Edmund: Letters from the North - Negotiations with the North: Constructions of an Iberian Modernism by Ángel Ganivet and Josep Pla . Frankfurt am Main etc .: Peter Lang, 2004 (Imaginatio borealis; Vol. 5). ISBN 3-631-52151-0 .

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SURNAME Ganivet, Angel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ganivet García, Ángel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Granada
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1898
Place of death Riga