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Clemente Palma Clemente Palma ( born December 3 , 1872 in Lima - d . August 13 , 1946 in Lima ) was a Peruvian writer . He was the son of famous Peruvian author and scholar Ricardo Palma and Ecuadorian Clemencia Ramínez . His halfsister Angélica Palma was also a writer . Life . Clemente Palma y Ramírez was born on December 3 , 1872 in Lima , Peru , son of famous Peruvian author Ricardo Palma and Ecuadorian Clemencia Ramírez . On 1876 , his father later married Cristina Román , which whom he had seven other children : Félix Vital , Angélica , Ricardo , Peregrina Augusta , Cristina , Cristián and Renée Cristina . In 1897 he obtained a degree in Letters from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos , with a thesis entitled El Porvenir de las Razas en el Perú ( The Future of the Races in Peru ) in which he defended the controversial thesis that the Peruvian race had to be improved and that this could be achieved through the introduction of Germans into Peru . He also obtained a doctorate from this university with a thesis on philosophy and art and became a professor at the university subsequently . In 1899 he obtained a bachelor of law degree from the same university . During his university studies , he worked as curator of the National Library of Peru and started his activities as a writer . From 1902 to 1904 he was the consul of Peru in Barcelona . In Spain he met Maria Manuela Schmalz whom he married in 1902 . They had five children : Judith , Clemente Ricardo , Ricardo , Clemencia and Isabel . Upon his return to Peru , he resumed his position as curator of the National Library of Peru , a post that he held until November 1911 . During this period , he founded several cultural and literary magazines such as Prisma and Variedades and the daily newspaper La Crónica . From 1911 to 1918 , he dedicated himself to the direction of these magazines . He was director of the magazines Prisma ( 1906–1908 ) and Variedades ( 1908–1931 ) and the newspaper La Crónica ( 1912–1929 ) . Between 1919 and 1930 , Clemente Palma was a Member of Parliament , supporting the authoritarian President Augusto B . Leguia , who had taken power through a coup . During this period , he remained active in the press and also taught classes of aesthetics and art history at his alma mater . In 1930 , he was imprisoned for a while after the coup of Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro . He was liberated thanks to the pressure of his friends but was forced into exile to Chile in 1932 . He could return to Peru only after the assassination of Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro in 1933 . During his exile in Chile , he wrote the science fiction novel XYZ . After the publication of this novel , he mainly wrote literary criticism and essays . Works . Clemente Palma was an important literary critic in Peru and exercised an important influence through the magazine Variedades . In that role , he has been criticized for not recognising the genius of César Vallejo when the latter sent him one of his early poems for review . Palmas best known works are in the realm of fiction . He is one of the first adherents of modernism in Peru . He made a great contribution to the development of the short story and science fiction in Peru and introduced new themes in its literature . His stories deal mostly with fantastic themes , psychological horror and science fiction . He was attracted to the morbid and many of his characters are abnormal and perverse . As his father was the director of the National Library of Peru , he had the opportunity to read the works of many foreign authors . His work shows a strong influence of Edgar Allan Poe and , to a lesser extent , nineteenth-century Russian writers and symbolist and decadent French writers , as well as the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche . His two short story collections Cuentos malévolos ( Malevolent Tales ) ( 1904 ) and Historietas Malignas ( Malignant Tales ) ( 1925 ) are in the style of Villiers de lIsle-Adams Contes cruels . Influenced by decadent themes and subject matter , they are filled with dark humor , blasphemy and the supernatural . His Tres cuentos Verdes ( 1922 ) were in the style of his fathers Tradiciones en Salsa Verde . He also wrote several novels , including Mors et Vita ( Death and Life ) ( 1923 ) and XYZ ( 1934 ) . This last novel has some similarities with the science fiction novel The Invention of Morel published by the Argentine Adolfo Bioy Casares in 1940 . The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú ( PUCP ) re-edited the entire narrative work of Clemente Palma , including the novel XYZ , in 2006 . His major works are : - Excursión literaria ( 1895 ) - Filosofía y arte ( 1897 ) - El porvenir de las razas ( 1897 ) , - El Perú ( 1898 ) - Cuentos Malévolos ( 1904 ) - Historietas Malignas ( 1925 ) - La cuestión de Tacna y Arica y la conferencia de Washington ( 1922 ) - Tres cuentos Verdes ( 1922 ) - Mors ex vita ( 1923 ) , novel . - XYZ ( 1934 ) - Había una vez un hombre.. . ( 1935 ) - Don Alonso Henríquez de Guzmán y el primer poema sobre la conquista de América ! ( 1935 ) - Crónicas político-doméstico-taurinas ( 1938 ) - La nieta del oidor ( 1986 , posthumous edition by Ricardo Silva Santisteban ) . Further reading . - Breaking traditions : the fiction of Clemente Palma , Nancy M . Kason , Associated University Presses , 1988 - Clemente Palma - El modernismo en su version decadente y gotica , Gabriela Mora , Instituto de Estudios Peruanos , 2000 External links . - Clemente Palma at the Guide to Supernatural Fiction - Clemente Palma at Educared - Clemente Palma at Prosa Modernista , also reproduces some stories in Spanish