Salvador Rueda in El Globo (1885-1888). The Learning of Narrative Prose

Abstract

This article studies the literary link between Salvador Rueda and El Globo, an important Madrid´s newspaper whom he will establish a close relationship between august 1885 and march 1888. It sets when and how he joined the redaction, ending with some inaccuracies extended between the critics. In El Globo, the author –until then known only as a poet– published more than one hundred and a half journalistic´s chronicles, letters, tales, customs´ articles..., which meant his learning of narrative prose. Rueda grouped more than a hundred of texts into different volumes of brief prose, published between 1886 and 1893; however a third of them were forgotten in the pages of El Globo. This article is responsible, on the other hand, of the transmission process of the first articles and, on the other hand, it is focused in the analysis of the second group of texts, that aren´t investigated, complementing the studies that have been done nowadays and contributing to a better understanding of the writer´s work in prose.