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Juan Pérez Zúñiga ( Madrid, 1860-Madrid, 1938) was a Spanish writer, journalist, and humorist.
A fan of music from childhood, Juan Pérez Zúñiga studied violin at the Madrid Royal Conservatory. The humorist, writer, and playwright Vital Aza helped Pérez Zúñiga join the editorial office of Madrid Cómico (1880). He became a lawyer in 1882, and contributed to over one hundred Spanish magazines and newspapers. His trademark was playful, festive characters. He was an editor for ABC, Blanco y Negro, El Liberal, Heraldo de Madrid, Nuevo Mundo and La Esfera.
Pérez Zúñiga frequently used the psuedonym Artagnán. His humor, which began as a tribute to Juan Martínez Villergas, evolved until all of his articles featured some of the humorous characteristics that characterized the "Other Generation of 27". [1] He was a disciple of Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Some of his literary gems are Zuñigadas and Amantes célebres puestos en solfa. In them, Pérez Zúñiga demonstrates a knack for mockery and parody, which also appear in his lyric compositions and in some of his theatrical texts—both in those on which he collaborated (like La romería del Halcón and Los de la burra) as well as in those he created himself, which are rarer (like Descanso dominical, Muerte y dulzura or El merengue triste).
Possessing a great vis cómica and ingenious ease, Pérez Zúñiga was an extraordinary composer of poetic verse. He is believed to have written and published over twenty thousand written compositions and publications, including his light-hearted poems. [2] He wrote over fifty of theatrical works and thirty of volumes, many of them illustrated by Joaquín Xaudaró or Garrido. The majority of his works have had various reprints and editions, as he was very successful. [3]
Notable examples of Pérez Zúñiga's prose include the two-volume Viajes Morrocotudos (of which there are at least ten editions), Arte de hacer curas, Seis días fuera del mundo, Viaje involuntario and Relato humorístico. He often employed jitanjáfora, a type of poetry in which the words mean nothing. In 1935, Pérez Zúñiga published his memoir El placer de recordar: Algunas de las cosas ocurridas al autor o conocidas por él en medio siglo de vida literaria...y de la otra. The publisher Renacimiento compiled his complete works in the 1920s and published them in various tomes.
There is a street in Madrid named after Pérez Zúñiga [1] located in the neighborhood Concepción within Madrid's Ciudad Lineal, parallel to the street Arturo Soria. [3]
Despite his prolific life and literary fame, Juan Pérez Zúñiga did not survive the Spanish Civil War and died of hunger on November 5, 1938 at 78 years of age. [3]