Blest Gana, Alberto

Blest Gana, Alberto

▪ Chilean writer
born May 4, 1830, Santiago, Chile
died Nov. 9/11, 1920, Paris, Fr.

      novelist who founded the Chilean social novel.

      Blest Gana began his education at the Santiago military academy, and, while studying military engineering in France, he came under the influence of the French realists, especially Honoré de Balzac. He returned to Chile in 1852 and taught mathematics in military academies. The fame he achieved through his literary work led to political appointments, and Blest Gana spent the last 50 years of his life serving as Chile's ambassador to England and France.

      His early novels, such as La aritmética en el amor (1860; “Arithmetic in Love”), Martín Rivas (1862), and El ideal de una calavera (1863; “A Foolish Ideal”), realistically depict the lives of the middle and upper classes of Santiago. These novels are generally of a stiff nature, character and plot often suffering at the hands of the author's concern for the evils of materialism. After a period of more than 30 years, during which he published no new works, he wrote what are considered to be his best novels. Durante la Reconquista (1897; “During the Reconquest”) and Los transplantados (1904; “The Uprooted”), both laden with moralistic overtones, are held to be his masterpieces.

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