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Joaquín Arderíus y Sánchez Fortún (May
1885,
Lorca, in
Murcia—
January 20 1969,
Mexico City) was a
Spanish experimental and political novelist.
Arderíus studied in
Madrid before taking engineering courses at the
University of Liège. He abandoned these studies to dedicate himself to literature and
leftist politics, and was jailed many times for his revolutionary activities during the dictatorship of
Miguel Primo de Rivera. In
1927, Arderíus founded the very successful periodical
Oriente. He also edited, together with
Antonio Espina and
José Díaz Fernández, the political periodical
Nueva España from 1930 to 1931, with an initial print run of 40,000 copies. In
1929, he became affiliated with the
Communist Party of Spain, but after
1933, he became aligned with the
Republican Left.
His novels include:
Mis mendigos (
1915); the
Nietzschean Así me fecundó Zaratustra (
1923); the erotic
Yo y tres mujeres ("I and Three Women") (
1924);
La duquesa de Nit (
1926);
La espuela (
1927);
Los príncipes iguales (
1928);
Justo (
1929), a satire on
Roman Catholicism;
El comedor de la pensión Venecia (
1930); the political
Campesinos (
1931), and
Crimen (
1934). With José Díaz Fernández, he wrote
Vida de Fermín Galán ("Life of Fermín Galán") (
1931).
During the
Spanish Civil War, he served as president of the
Antifascist organization
Socorro Rojo Internacional, composed of unions, workers’ organizations, and leftist political parties, which supported the
Republican cause against
Francisco Franco. Arderíus went into exile in
1939, first to
France and then
Mexico, after
Adolf Hitler's occupation of
Paris. He worked for the embassy of the Spanish Republic there, and later in the Mexican Ministry of National Education. During his exile, he abandoned the writing of novels, and instead wrote a biography of
Don Juan de Austria.
Though they were considered too difficult to be commercially successful, Arderíus’ novels are currently being reexamined for their influence on other anti-Franco modernists and post-modernist novelists.
Sources
- Biography
(in Spanish)
- V. Fuentes, «De la novela expresionista a la revolucionaria proletaria: en tomo a la narrativa de J . Arderius», en Papeles de Son Armadans, CL.XXIX (Feb 1971), pp. 197-215;
- M. F. Vilches de Frutos, «El subjetivismo como constante vital: la trayectoria literaria de J. Arderius», en Dicenda. Cuadernos de Filología Hispánica, III (1984), pp. 141-161.
- Rosemary Goring (editor), Larousse Dictionary of Writers (1994), p. 36.
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