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Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, who lived from 1833 to 1891, was a member of a penniless aristocratic family and, in succession, a crusading young liberal editor and atheist, an unsuccessful playwright, a successful politician and. toward the end of his life, a conservative, well-to-do author and defender of the faith. The information is necessary because. Graves believes, Alarcon wrote The Infant with the Globe as a bantering, ironic commentary on his own youth...
...Alarcon's hero is an impossibly noble, handsome and athletic young caballero named Manuel who is thwarted in his desire to marry Soledad, the daughter of the town moneylender. This pinch-souled Shylock, whose exactions drove Manuel's father to his death, not only blocks Man uel's marriage but informs him that part of his father's huge debt is still unpaid. In the best Andalusian tradition, Manuel leaves town to seek his fortune, vowing to return, pay the debt, marry Soledad - and throttle any man who has looked...
This is more than melodrama, Translator Graves easily persuades the reader. Alarcon, the firebrand grown conservative, still is a mocker. His gentle irony is aimed partly at the lofty aspirations of youth, and also, less obviously, at the easy com promises of age. The author's characters, particularly those that are, in part, self-caricatures, are drawn with accuracy and wit. Alarcón's description of a selfconscious, self-elected young genius shows why his book is worth Graves's trouble and the reader's time: "A young man, pale and gloomy, who avoids mankind...
Conservatives' Candidate Ruperto Alarcon Falconi...
...week's end, cheerful Ecuadorians were saying, with the Shell workers' union's General Secretary Guillermo Alarcon: "We must be optimistic that future drillings will produce exploitable oil and the company will be able to maintain at least the present number of workers."* Still more cheerful were those who said: "Shell has been withdrawing from Ecuador since it came here ten years...