La obra literaria de Eduardo Zamacois

Resumen

A study of the literary works of Eduardo Zamacois (1873-1971), author of 120 works including novels, short stories, tales, plays, autobiographies, travel books and journalistic chronicles written between 1893 and 1938, apart from more than one thousand articles in newspapers. This study is made fixing and analysing all the books written by this author, and has been organized as follows: the first chapter, Life and literature in Eduardo Zamacois, is a brief biographical sketch which emphasizes the close relation existing between biography and literature in Zamacois. The chapter II approaches the study of his works, separating it into two parts: A writer between two centuries, the first one, places the authors work and person in the literary light of his time. The second part, Zamacois, a professional of literature, presents some considerations about his literary style. The following chapters present an exhaustive chronological study of all his works. There are different sections for his contributions to the collections of short novel, which enables us an approach to the study of the phenomenon that meant the revival of a genre, due to the foundation of El Cuento Semanal by Eduardo Zamacois. His plays are studied in other separated section. Finally, the last three sections are dedicated to his travel books, his journalistic chronicles and his autobiographies. The Conclusion points out the contributions of these works to the Spanish literary scene, its most outstanding values, its originality. All the works of our author, the studies about him and the general works that can help in the study of his work are mentioned in the Bibliography and a Graphic Appendix collects a wide selection of the covers that the books of Eduardo Zamacois had when they appeared.