Manuel Domínguez Benavides by Francisco Arias Solis

DOM MANUEL? NGUEZ BENAVIDES

(1895-1947)

"Many hundreds of thousands of years have elapsed since

for a living being born on earth, and some

less before man adopted the erect posture.

But how many years will have taken humanity to

produce a pirate? ?

Manuel D. Benavides.

THE IMPRISONED FOR A PIRATE VOICE Manuel D. Benavides is within the list of novelists who cultivated the novel criticism, political or social. Accomplished writer, with a great deal of journalism, who in his early novels gave a special dedication to erotic studied through psychoanalysis. Before the war he wrote Lamentation (1922), in the deepest (1923), Candide, son of Candido (1924) and in 1933 his first novel social appears, a man of thirty, quite autobiographical data, year published following the last pirate of the Mediterranean, a fictionalized biography of John March, one of the resounding successes of the time, many of whose copies were purchased by the applicant for further destruction. The publication prompted the author would go to jail. In 1935 he published The revolution was well (red and black in October), the following priests and beggars (1936) and crime in Europe (Our War) (1937). In his Mexican exile published other novels about the Spanish war episodes: The New Prophets (1942). in which the invention is combined with the spread of novel revolutionary ideas, the Squadron send her the ropes (1944), which relates the seafaring mutiny against their commanders, and War and revolution in Catalonia (1946).

Death surprised when preparing the publication of two novels I'm the 5th Regiment and History is made in Madrid.

The novelist, playwright, journalist and politician Manuel Domínguez Benavides was born in Ponteareas, Pontevedra, on April 19, 1895 and died in Mexico on October 19, 1947. He studied law at the University of Santiago and was an official of Ministry of Finance. In Madrid he was editor of the weekly Estampa, collaborated with the newspaper El Liberal and also wrote two plays the character of virtue, fable in three acts and the man, woman and the devil. The first was released in 1930, two years earlier had won second prize in the contest sponsored by the ABC newspaper. Militant Socialist Party. He lived alternately in Madrid and Barcelona. In 1934 he was imprisoned and his release from prison he went to France. "The last pirate of the Mediterranean, said Manuel D. Benavides led me to jail and then off into exile. He was curator of the Republican fleet during the war years. He went with Jose Maria Quiroga Pla and Jose Bergamin the extraordinary conference of the International Association of Writers for the Defense of Culture in 1938. At the end of the war he went into exile in Mexico. There militates in the Circle Jaime Vera PSOE.

He was deputy editor of the journal Reconquest of Spain from exile in the service of the Supreme Council of National Unity.

He has claimed authorship of the book Martyr Episodes Galicia white terror in the provinces of Galicia (1938), written under the pseudonym Quijano Hernán, which tells the terrible repression suffered by the provinces of La Coruña and Pontevedra, in the last months of 1936, and was reissued as Galicia under the boot of Franco. And, as the Galician novelist, who was finally driven into exile by another pirate, "After the rain, at the foot of the trees are born fungi. After the miserable triumph over the graves of the fallen, sprang the executioners?.

Francisco Arias Solis

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