Ricardo Palma and the respected Julio S. Hernandez, or two visions of women of Lima in the postwar period (1885); [Ricardo Palma et le « valido» Julio S. Hernández, ou deux visions de la femme de Lima dans l’après-guerre (1885)]

Callo O.H. · Boletin de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua (2022) · DOI: 10.46744/bapl.202202.001

Resumen

Ricardo Palma kept a long and close friendship with Julio S. Hernández, journalist and politician, also a poet, twenty years younger, who played an important and reserved role in his appointment as director of the National Library of Peru. Hernandez wrote a comedy, Ernesto, in which he questioned the Limeñas who married out of interest. Asked for his opinion, Palma expressed his criticisms in verse; Hernandez replied in the same form. Later, stimulated by his admirer, Palma wrote “Levantiscos”, a “literary letter” about the origin of that word.

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú