author
Emilio Carrere
1881–1947
A vivid, bohemian voice of early 20th-century Madrid, he is best known today for the gothic novel The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks. His writing moves between poetry, journalism, and fiction, often drawn to the city's nocturnal, shadowy side.
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La copa de Verlaine
by Emilio Carrere
About the author
Born in Madrid in 1881, Emilio Carrere was a Spanish writer linked to modernist decadence. He worked across several forms, including poetry, journalism, and narrative prose, and built a reputation as a strongly urban author whose imagination was closely tied to Madrid.
He is especially remembered for La torre de los siete jorobados (1920), a gothic historical novel that became his best-known work. Readers and critics also associate him with a bohemian literary image and with stories that explore darker corners of city life.
Carrere died in Madrid in 1947. Even now, he stands out as a distinctive figure in Spanish literature: atmospheric, eccentric, and deeply connected to the mood of his time.