Emilio Carrere

Attached to Franco's regime, died on April 30, 1947. Like other authors who meant the dictatorship for, his work fell into oblivion after being rediscovered in the late twentieth century, coinciding with renewed interest for bohemian fantasy literature.

Between 1935 and 1936 he collaborated on 'Information', an ultra-conservative publication financed by the banker Juan March. After the Civil War, he worked in the newspaper 'Madrid', gaining back some notoriety.

However, the economy did not stabilize until 1929, when his father died leaving him a substantial inheritance which he would not know administer. By then, he had become a monarchist and anti-Republican.

Under the influence of the French damn poets (especially, Verlaine, whose 'Saturnian Poems' translated and published in 1928), he was fascinated by the bohemian life.

Both his novel 'The tower of the seven hunchbacked' (1924) and its film adaptation are considered classics of the genre.

In 1922 it appeared 'Sacrifice', a novel set in the wars in Morocco. Very popular poet, the love of gambling and extravagance forced him to find a source of supplementary income in the theater.

Between 1919 and 1922 his complete works were published.

Between 1910 and 1912 he collaborated with the journal 'Socialist Life', perhaps led by his sympathy for the oppressed.

In 1908 he wrote the poem that would give him an unprecedented popularity, "The Muse of the stream," included in his second collection of poems, 'The Death Knight', and which reflected his bohemian and decadent life conception.

In 1907 he began publishing in magazines short novels on the Madrid underworld of the time: 'The brotherhood of the pirouette', 'The sadness of the brothel', 'The conquest of the Puerta del Sol', 'A terrible man', 'The destination clown','The Sixth Sense'or 'An Unlikely crime'. Accompanied by other Bohemians, like Pedro Barrantes, Alejandro Sawa, Ciro Bayo and Pedro Luis de Gálvez he took the messy topical nightlife.

He was married in 1906 with Milagros Saenz de Miera. In the same year, his friendship with the publisher and bookseller Gregorio Pueyo led him to prepare an anthology of modernist poetry, which was published with the title 'The court poets' anthology of modern rhymes, and in the prologue defended the new aesthetic passion and his mentor, Rubén Darío.

Born in Madrid from Eloísa Carrere Moreno, a single mother of 29 who died a month after giving birth, and Senén Canido Pardo. The father, a lawyer with political ambitions, disowned him, perhaps to avoid complications in his career. However, when he died he bequeathed most of his library to his natural son, as well as a large sum of money. Motherless a month after his birth, Carrere was entrusted to her grandmother, with whom he remained until his father later changed his mind and wanted to take him. His first vocation was painting; then he became interested in the theater, which led him to enroll at the school of declamation Workers Instructional Center, where classes were given to the poor. At school he became fond of billiards, where he met the zarzuela's composer Federico Chueca. His grandmother fell ill and his father helped on him putting Carrere as a clerk in the Court of Auditors. Carrere published his first verses in the weekly 'Wasp' and 'The Spark' and frequented the literary circles. He made friendship with the painter Julio Romero de Torres. In 1902 he published his first book, 'Romantic'.