Julio Camba, crítico literario del Modernismo

Abstract

Julio Camba is a well-known author by his travelling chronicles impregnated with humour who starts writing in the first decade of the XXth century. Nevertheless, previously he published in the anarchistic magazine Revista Blanca and in the republican newspaper El País some literary reviews on poetry —Rubén Darío, Francisco Villaespesa, Manuel Machado, Amado Nervo— and some literary manifestoes that they reveal both his style and his thought’s development. The interpretation of these articles allows to know a writer who praised orthodox anarchism and disapproved of Modernismo. Afterwards, Camba defended the values of Modernismo and incorporated irony into his vision of the world.