Antonio Prieto Martín ( Murcia , September 23 , 1930 ). Spanish writer, emeritus professor . He graduated in Philosophy and Letters with an Extraordinary Prize from the University of Madrid, and later worked as a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Pisa ( Italy ) and the University of Malaga .
Summary
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- 1 Biographical synthesis
- 2 Symbolist or metaphorical author
- 1 Trials
- 2 Novels
- 3 Member of the Academy
- 4 Works
- 1 Tests
- 2 Narration
- 5 Related Topics
- 6 Sources
Biographical synthesis
His father, Luis Prieto, a socialist deputy, died in a traffic accident during the Spanish Civil War , a fact that forced his mother to transfer the family to Almería (where some authors wrongly place his birth).
His teaching activity was carried out at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the Complutense University of Madrid , as adjunct professor of Spanish Literature in its relations with the Universal, and professor in charge of the Renaissance Literature and Hispano-Italian Literature course. Years later, he joined the chair of Spanish Literature at the UCM, specializing in 16th century poetry and prose , where he has taught ever since.
Symbolist or metaphorical author
As a narrator, Antonio Prieto fits into the Generation of the half century, forming part of the current that was called metaphysical realism, transcendent realism or existential novel. He has also been considered a symbolist or metaphorical author: “he has shown a decided preference for symbolic stories.”
Antonio Prieto works as an essayist, novelist and bibliophile. Three volumes on Spanish prose and poetry of the 16th century are owed to his work. In 1955 he wrote the novel “Tres pisadas de hombre”, for which he was awarded the Planeta Prize. In 1956 he published “Good Night Argüelles”; two years later he published his work, “Lazaro Back Back”, and in 1961 “Encounter with Ilita”. Later he published “Elegy for a hope” and “Prologue to a death”.
essays
He has written essays such as: “Introduction, studies and notes to the first four volumes of Italian Masters”; “Theory and interpretation of Comparative Literature”; “The current paths of criticism” (1969); “Semiological essays of literary systems”; “European Literature Studies”; “Garcilaso de la Vega”; “Morphology of the novel”; “The prose of the sixteenth century”; “The poetry of the sixteenth century”, etc.
Novels
In 1972 he published the novel “Secretum”, for which he was awarded the Novelas y Cuentos Prize of that year. In 1975 he published “Carta sin tiempo”, and in 1988 “El Embajador”. For his novel “La plaza de la memoria” he won the Andalusian Novel Prize on February 27, 1995, to which he had participated under the pseudonym Homero. In February 1996 his work El ciego de Chíos was published, in which the protagonist, a linguist from Granada, adopts the figure of Homer as the central axis of the novel to tell a story of love and adventure.
Member of the Academy
He is a member of the Academy of Good Letters of Barcelona and has directed numerous doctoral theses in his chair, including one on the poetic work of Hurtado de Mendoza. In addition to the aforementioned terms, in 1960 he was awarded the Ondas de novela Award, and in 1966 the Novelas y Cuentos Award.
In 1997 he published the novel entitled “Isla Blanca”, which won the Andalusian Critics Award. He has written, in collaboration with his daughter Isabel, a book of literary anecdotes, published under the title “Small letter” (1998). That same year of 1998 he published the novel “The rain of time”, a tender story of old knights errant in these times. In his academic work, he stands out as one of the main specialists in the Italian Renaissance2 as well as for his studies on 16th century literature.
Currently, already retired as a teacher, he is a member of the José Manuel Lara Foundation Board of Trustees and a member of its Cultural Council. He continues to write and give lectures.
Plays
essays
- Coherence and textual relevance.
- From Berceo to Baroja.
- Semiological essay of literary systems.
- Morphology of the novel (1978).
- Poetry of the 16th century.
- The prose of the sixteenth century.
- Introduction, studies and notes to the first four volumes of Italian Masters.
- Theory and interpretation of comparative literature.
- The current paths of criticism (1969).
- Studies of European literature.
- Garcilaso de la Vega.
Narration
- Three footprints of man (1955) (Planeta Prize 1955).
- Good night, Argüelles (1956).
- Go back, Lázaro (1958).
- Encounter with Ilitia (1961).
- Prologue to a death (1965).
- Elegy for a hope (1972).
- Secretum (1972).
- The unleashed story of the knight Palmaverde (1991).
- The disease of love (1993).
- The memory square (Andalusian Novel Prize) (1995).
- The blind man from Chios (1996).
- Isla Blanca (Andalusian Critics Award) (1998).
- One and all wars (Andalusian Critics Award) (2006).
- The Sealed Manuscript (2010).
- Diogenes’s Goat (2011).
