GANIVET, ANGEL (1865-1898), Spanish essayist and novelist, was born at Granada. He entered the diplomatic pro fession and was appointed consul at Antwerp, Helsingfors (where he published in 1896 his first book Granada la Bella) and Riga. Ganivet shows a brilliant power of evocation in the novels La Conquista del reino de Maya . . . (1897) and Los Trabajos del in f atigable creador Pio Cio (1898) . His best work lies, however, in the field of the essay—in the Idearium espavol (1897), where, as in the Epistolario (19o4), his original and suggestive thought has free play.