Ramón Soler


For Ramón Soler, Catalan painter and draftsman, see Ramón Soler Liró

Ramón Soler, who used the pseudonym of El Bachiller Cantaclaro (first half of the 19th century, in the second and first of the 20th was used by Ubaldo Romero Quiñones), a Spanish military man and writer of Romanticism, which should not be confused with his quasi-synonym and contemporary, the also writer Ramón López Soler. Biography

Little is known about him. He was a soldier who achieved the rank of colonel, perhaps more, and wrote some books on militia in the 1940s; of literature, under the pseudonym of "Bachiller Cantaclaro" and under his by Ramón Soler published several more, a full course of brown grammar: divided into fifteen lessons, in which fixed rules are given so that anyone can live without having to work Madrid, Impr. of Tomás Jordán, September 1833, where he satirized the idleness of the Spanish bourgeoisie from a manners perspective; in fifteen lessons he teaches to live from the story to the body of a king without having any expense or working on anything, only using the arts of rhetoric. He wrote other costumbristas works, for example the misogynist What they are. Letter written to a first-time gallant (Barcelona, ​​1831), which prompted the reply of Francisco de Paula Mellado in What They Are: a letter addressed to Don Ramon Soler in response to the one he wrote to a first-time Galan, and in defense of the beautiful sex ... (Madrid, 1832). He also approached the genre of the historical novel with Adela and Matilde or The last five years of Spanish rule in Peru (Madrid, 1843). He had as a disciple the writer Estanislao Roger, who in his work La prisión (Madrid, 1834) exposes and comments to his teacher a series of abuses he finds in public life.

Soler's social criticism of the costumbrismo is exercised over non-individualized types, but universal, and is very careful in judging jobs, not the people who perform them. Works Bibliography

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