Eloy Perillan and Buxó

Eloy Perillán y Buxó (Valladolid, 1848-Havana, 1889), Spanish journalist and playwright, who settled in Cuba.

Biography

Son of a military doctor, he was an unrepentant traveler and above all an adventurer. He was the nephew of the founder of the now more than centenary El Norte de Castilla and of a notable music composer, former amanuensis of the popular author of dramas and novels Enrique Pérez Escrich, and he cultivated journalism and literature since adolescence. With an anarchist ideology, he founded the newspapers Los Descamisados, El Petróleo, El Pito, El Degüello, El Cangrejo and Los Desesperados, all published between March and September 1873. Continuous complaints caused the closure of these publications, despite the significant circulation they reached for the time.

The first, Los Descamisados, came out with the subtitle Organ of the last social strata and in the first issue it included phrases like "War on the rich ! War to the powerful! War on Society! Anarchy is our only formula. Everything for everyone, from power to women (...) Tremble, bourgeois: your domination is coming to an end! Over to the shirtless! The black flag is raised! War on the family! War on property! War to God!".

The Catholic, traditionalist and conservative sectors became so nervous that the authorities had to close the newspaper. The second, The Oil, learned the lesson: "We began to distribute The Oil in small quantities so that the privileged classes would not be too alarmed. It's all about beginning'. The third was subtitled Organ of the scoundrel, and included articles on free love with paragraphs like the following: "We, the intransigent and demagogue scoundrel; we, the incendiaries of luxury and assassinations of tyrants; we, the constant disturbers of public peace; us, the disgusting shirtless ones...". The radicalism of Perillán and Buxó was so intransigent that it eventually became counterproductive for the revolution.

He also published in El Noticiero de España, a family newspaper, passing through the prestigious La Iberia to La Revolución; literature, giving the Spanish stage (before embarking for America) fifty-odd pieces, passages, toys, zarzuelas, theatrical translations and adaptations, comedies and dramas, in prose and verse, plus seven books, most of them political. which was almost imposed by the circumstances of the Revolution of 1868, fall of Isabel II, accession and abdication of Amadeo I, and proclamation of the first Spanish Republic.

Relative of politicians affiliated with the progressive party and even more radical himself, on January 3, 1874, when General Pavía dissolved the Republican Cortes at bayonet point, Eloy Perillán left Madrid for Lisbon, taking the ship there heading to Uruguay. He married the writer Eva Canel (Coaña, Asturias, 1857-Havana, 1932). On February 15, 1874 he arrived in Montevideo with a letter of recommendation from Emilio Castelar for the director of El Siglo; In this newspaper he began to write in verse and prose and some time later his wife arrived from Spain. At the beginning of January 1875 he went to Buenos Aires. On March 5 he edited again El Petróleo, organ of the last social strata and the first communist blouses . In its first issue it specifies: "El Petróleo is a humorous newspaper and nothing more than that it hates the death of political traffickers and that esteems true patriots." Humorous, ironic, satirical it is in all its numbers, in which it leaves no puppet with a head, from the president of the Republic to the last neighborhood commissioner of whatever party they are. A deep skepticism regarding politicians is his norm and the criticism against them is his style, both in his writings in prose or verse and in his caricatures, almost all works of the cartoonist Alfredo Michón. He went to the limits of the defamatory, so at the foot of some verses in "Rociada 19.a", of July 8 and 9, 1875, the words appear: "It will continue, if they let us." There are Moors on the coast. Whether for fear of legal or illegal measures, that number 19 is the last one. He then went to Chile, Bolivia and Peru before returning to Spain and going to die in Cuba.

Work

• Colon, Cortes and Pizarro: comedy in an act and in verse. Madrid: Vicente de Lalama, 1871.
• The ring of hair: comedy in an act and in verse. Madrid: Vicente de Lalama, 1870.
• One million and two stars: comic toy in an act and in verse. Madrid: Vicente de Lalama, 1871.
• And all for a Simon: comedy in an act and in verse. Madrid: Vicente de Lalama, 1870.
• Bengalas: collection of short novels and light stories. Barcelona: Luis Tasso Serra, Editor, 1887.
• Whole body portraits: political-social photographs. Madrid: Print and Library of Miguel Guijarro, 1871.
• Don Robustiano: you shoot comic in two acts and prose. Madrid: Teatro de Variedades, 1872.
• From Miraflores and tested: scenic dialogue in an act and in verse. Madrid: Florencio Fiscowich, editor, 1884.
• Lion Manso: comedy in two acts and in verse. Madrid: Florencio Fiscowich, editor, 1885.
• Killers: political-taurin program of an act, two paintings and in original verse by Eloy P. Buxó and José Jackson Veyan; music by Angel Rubio Madrid: [s.n.], 1884
• Veial sins: collection of novelties, stories, epigrams, loose ends, poetry and literary articles, with a prologue written by the baroness of Wilson Buenos Aires: Imprenta Rural, 1875.
• The Pandora box: review of Peru 1877 - 1878: comic-liric purpose in an act and in vosic verse by the teacher Ricardo Sánchez Allú. Lima: Print of news by Ezequiel G. Sierra, 1878.
• Dad!: comic toy in an act, original and in verse. Madrid: [s.n.], 1872.
• The Husbands' Strike: toy in an act and in prose Madrid: Print by Diego Valero, 1872.
• The site of Paris: drama in four acts, in prose and in original verse of Eloy Perillan and Pedro Marquina. Madrid: [s.n.], 1871.
• The damn or a river of gold: melodrama fantastic, show, in three acts divided into nine paintings, in verse and prose. Barcelona: [s.n.], 1887.
• The orphan: zarzuela in an act, original and in verse; music by Francisco García Vilamala. Madrid: [s.n.], 1873.
• Apollo and Apeles: comic-liric corridor in an act and prose; music by Francisco García Vilamala. Madrid: [s.n.], 1873.
• Hatchis: political-social magazine, in two acts; music of the masters Rubio and Espino. Madrid: Graphical establishment of the Universe, h. 1884.
• The Melon of the Deputy: continuation of the guide: scenic caricature in an act and in verse. Madrid: Lirico-Dramatic Administration, 1881.
• What will it be, what won't it be?: comedy in an act and prose. Madrid: Administration of the Teatro de Variedades, 1872.
• Caesar the pirate or Episodes of the Chillán site in 1813. Original historical novel by Esteban Alejandro (pseudonym of Perillán and Buxó). Santiago de Chile: Agricultural Printing, 1875.