Two playwrights first class that have signed some of the most important theatrical pages of the letters from our country did not exactly get along with each other, something that is not uncommon among authors who excel in the same genre and also share a time.
It is said that when they saw each other the sparks and that they did not hesitate to try to offend each other, sometimes with class and wit and sometimes with foul insults.
It turns out that once, according to the gossips, the shot backfired at Hyacinth Benavente.
It all happened at doors of the theater in which both coincided and when going to leave at the same time, Benavente leaned forward with force and despite being himself a recognized homosexual, he wanted to offend his rival and snapped at him.
-I'm sorry, I just don't give way maricones.
Valle At that moment he saw the open sky as Benavente had placed it on a tray. The Galician writer had nothing to do but remain motionless, giving way to Benavente without flinching to add a concise "I do" at the same moment that his nemesis crossed the threshold before his passivity to pass before ...
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I knew her but with the reverse role: Valle insulting first, and Benavente responding ...
Valle-Inclán had nothing to do with this anecdote. The protagonists were Benavente and the critic José María Carretero Novillo ("The Audacious Knight"), with whom Benavente maintained literary and personal differences. The meeting took place on the steps of the Ateneo de Madrid.