Evaristo Correa Calderón

Category: Writer and literary critic
Birth Date: In 1899 (†† In 1986)
Birth Place: Neira de Rei - Baralla (Lugo)
 Curriculum

After taking a degree in History at Santiago de Compostela University, he worked as a Spanish conversation assistant at Toulouse University (1927-28). In 1930, he gave a course on Spanish Literature at Bucharest University. From 1930 to 1939, he taught Spanish Literature in several Spanish Secondary Schools. Then he was a Professor in Las Palmas, Valladolid, Salamanca and Alcalá de Henares. From 1925 to 1926, he was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper El Pueblo Gallego (Vigo).

 Work & Activities

These are some of his most important works: Luar. Contos galaicos; Ontes Poemas; El milagro y la rosa; Conceición sinxela do Ceo; Notas para un magisterio idealista; Margarida a da sorrisa de aurora. Conto para nenos; Intuición del Romanticismo; Teoría de la Atlántida; Teoría de la Atlántida y otras historias fabulosas; Los costumbristas españoles; Escenas matritenses; Baltasar Gracián. Su vida y su obra; Oráculo manual; Agudeza y Arte de ingenio; El Criticón; Bibliografía de arbitristas, economistas y reformadores españoles... He wrote many articles in the newspaper ABC that were published in the book Los instantes festivos.