Manuel González Prada

Peruvian politician

1844   -   1918

country of citizenship: Peru
language of expression: Spanish
educated at: Real Convictorio de San Carlos, National University of San Marcos
occupation: writer, politician, poet, literary critic, journalist, anarchist, philosopher

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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. 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. 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.
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