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Published 11/06/2009 by Washington Post


Francisco Ayala, 103; Spanish author, Franco foe

Francisco Ayala, 103, a highly honored Spanish author and sociologist whose opposition to the dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco led him into decades of self-imposed exile and influenced the enduring theme of his literary career -- the toxic effect of power -- died Tuesday at...

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Francisco Ayala, an eminent Spanish novelist whose work explored societies in which there is much despotism and little benevolence, died on Tuesday at his home in ... - [11/06/2009 - Miami Herald]
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...of the venerated "Generation of '27,' which included Federico García Lorca, Pedro Salinas and Luis Cernuda, and he was a leading Franco opponent during the civil war of the late 1930s. His father and a younger brother had been executed at the start of the war."
Francisco Ayala, 103; Spanish author, Franco foe [Washington Post - 11/06/2009]
...for work that "has conspicuously enriched the literary patrimony of the Spanish speaking world." In Mr. Ayala's novels...
Francisco Ayala, 103; Spanish author, Franco foe [Washington Post - 11/06/2009]
...introduction, was "power exercised by man over his fellow man is always a usurpation." Malcolm Compitello...
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