José Jurado de la Parra

He was a disciple of Campoamor and Pérez Galdós and a close friend of José Zorrilla and Blasco Ibáñez , as well as Antonio Fernández Grilo , a poet from Córdoba.

In October 1895, his work Sincerity premiered in Madrid ; His fraternal friendship with Jacinto Benavente dates from this time , who dedicated his comedy Gente conocida to him .

He collaborated since its founding by Joaquín Dicenta in the weekly Germinal , which came to light on April 30, 1897 and extended his life by two years; its first editorial board included Francisco Maceín and Ernesto Bark .

In 1898, a month after the « Disaster », he founded with Eusebio Blasco the weekly Vida Nueva , in which Unamuno would write two well-known articles, «Muera Don Quixote» and «Renovación».

He was a regular, in the early years of the 20th century, at Jacinto Benavente 's social gathering at the El Gato Negro café, on Calle del Príncipe, next to the Teatro de la Comedia, which also included Pedro Zorrilla, Manolo González, Bonafé , Tirso Escudero, Nilo Fabra, Juan Espantaléon, Martínez Sierra, Antonio Palomero, Antonio Paso, Joaquín Abati, Pedro Mata and Enrique Amado.