Manuel González Prada
Manuel González Prada | |
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| Born | 5 January 1844 |
| Died | 22 July 1918 (aged 74) Lima, Peru |
| Burial place | Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro 12°02′34″S 77°00′34″W / 12.042852552053436°S 77.00957408578998°W |
| Alma mater | Real Convictorio de San Carlos |
| Known for | Influences on indigenismo and Peruvian nationalism |
| Political party | National Union |
Jose Manuel de los Reyes González de Prada y Ulloa (Lima, 5 January 1844 – Lima, 22 July 1918) was a Peruvian politician and anarchist, literary critic and director of the National Library of Peru. The first writer to criticize the oligarchy within 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 born into the aristocratic class. 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.