Manuel González Prada
Jose Manuel de los Reyes González de Prada y Ulloa (Lima, January 5, 1844 – Lima, July 22, 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.
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