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Generation Of '50
The Generation of '50 ( es, Generación del 50) relates to a Spanish literary movement of the mid-20th century, also known as the children of the civil war, and relates to writers born around the 1920s and published around the 1950s. They engendered a new lyrical preoccupation with language and incorporated metaphysical and philosophical techniques in their work in order to circumvent and undermine the strict censorship of the Francoist State. Many of the movement's initial features were influenced by the Generation of '27 and Generation of '98, notably Antonio Machado. In the second stage, when censorship relaxed somewhat novelists saw their role as provoking social reform by describing misery and injustice. Francoist Spain allowed, for the first time, members of the Generation of '50 to participate in translations and commentaries of selected foreign authors such as T.S. Eliot and Paul Celan. Most of these authors grouped into circles of friends meeting in bars and coffeehous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyric Poetry
Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. It is not equivalent to song lyrics, though song lyrics are often in the lyric mode, and it is also ''not'' equivalent to Ancient Greek lyric poetry, which ''was'' principally limited song lyrics, or chanted verse, hence the confusion. The term for both modern lyric poetry and modern song lyrics both derive from a form of Ancient Greek literature, the Greek lyric, which was defined by its musical accompaniment, usually on a stringed instrument known as a kithara. The term owes its importance in literary theory to the division developed by Aristotle among three broad categories of poetry: lyrical, dramatic, and epic. Lyric poetry is also one of the earliest forms of literature. Meters Much lyric poetry depends on regular meter based either on number of syllables or on stress – with two short syllables typically being exchangeable for one long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Manuel Caballero Bonald
José Manuel Caballero Bonald (November 11, 1926 – May 9, 2021) was a Spanish novelist, lecturer and poet. Early life Caballero was born in Calle Caballeros, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. His father was Plácido Caballero, a Cuban whose mother was of European descent and whose father was from Cantabria. His mother was Julia Bonald, a descendant of Viscount Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald, a traditional French philosopher who settled in Andalucia in the middle of the 19th century. Education Between 1936 and 1943, Caballero Bonald studied at the Marianistas de Jerez School. During the Spanish Civil War, he spent some time in the Sierra de Cádiz and in Sanlúcar de Barrameda. He read the first books that were to influence him: Jack London, Emilio Salgari, Robert Louis Stevenson, and José de Espronceda. Between 1944 and 1948, he undertook nautical studies in Cádiz, and he wrote his first poems. He made friends with members of the Cádiz magazine ''Platero'', namely Fernando ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Hierro
José Hierro del Real (born 3 April 1922 in Madrid, Spain – died 21 December 2002 in Madrid, Spain), sometimes colloquially called Pepe Hierro, was a Spanish poet. He belonged to the so-called postwar generation, within the rootless and existential poetry streams. He wrote for both ''Espadaña'' and ''Garcilaso'' magazines. In 1981, he received the Prince of Asturias Awards in Literature, in 1998 the Cervantes Prize The Miguel de Cervantes Prize ( es, Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes) is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language. History The prize was established in 1975 ... and he received many more awards and honours. Work * ''Alegría'', M., Col. Adonáis, 1947 (Adonáis Prize 1947). * ''Tierra sin nosotros'', Santander, Proel, 1947. * ''Con las piedras, con el viento'', Santander, Proel, 1950. * ''Quinta del 42'', M., Editora Nacional, 1952. * ''Antología'', Santander, 1953 (wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Guillén
Rafael Guillén (born in Granada, 27 April 1933) is a Spanish poet, a prominent member of the Generation of '50. "National Prize for Literature" in Spain (1994) and one of the most important authors of his generation, he has a long artistic career and among his merits is the fact of helping the recovery of Andalusian poetic culture after the devastation of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) The neoclassical influence that weighed on other members of his generation is noticeable in his early works. However, the attraction to popular themes and airs (''Cancionero-guía para andar por el aire de Granada'', 1962) soon took on an evolution that manifested itself, already in the sixties, abandoning the rigidity of traditional metrics. With the publication of ''Moheda'' (1979), it surprises with its uninhibited and innovative style in syntax. His themes are not light: love and eroticism are often mixed with elegy for the inevitable degradation of the passage of time, expressed in verse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfonso Grosso
Alfonso Grosso Ramos (1928-1995) was a Spanish writer. He won the Premio de la Crítica for his novel ''Guarnición de Silla'' (1970) and the Premio Alfaguara for his autobiographical novel ''Florido mayo'' (1973). Selected filmography * ''Goya, a Story of Solitude'' (1971) References 1928 births 1995 deaths Spanish male writers International Writing Program alumni {{Spain-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Goytisolo
Juan Goytisolo Gay (6 January 1931 – 4 June 2017) was a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist. He lived in Marrakesh from 1997 until his death in 2017. He was considered Spain's greatest living writer at the beginning of the 21st century, yet he had lived abroad since the 1950s. On 24 November 2014 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world. Background Juan Goytisolo was born to an upper class family. He claimed that this level of status, accompanied by the cruelties of his great-grandfather and the miserliness of his grandfather (discovered through the reading of old family letters and documents), was a major reason for his joining the Communist party in his youth. His father was imprisoned by the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War, while his mother, Julia Gay, was killed in the first Francoist air raid of Barcelona in 1938. He attended a Jesuit school in Barcelona after the Civil War, where he began wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Agustín
José Agustín Ramírez Gómez (born 19 August 1944) is a Mexican novelist, short story writer, essayist and screenwriter. He is considered as one of the most influential and prolific Mexican writers of the second half of the 20th century. Career José Agustín was born in Acapulco, Mexico on 19 August 1944. He studied Classical Literature at the School of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Film direction at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos and Dramaturgy at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura. Agustín participated in Juan José Arreola's writers' workshop from 1962 to 1965, where he wrote his first novel, '' La Tumba'' (The Tomb), when he was nineteen years old. The novel was the brief but provocative story of a Mexican upperclass teen, deemed indecent by the public but gathering praise from older writers. This and his most famous work, ''De Perfil'' (Profile view), a fast and detailed view of three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángel González Muñiz
Ángel González Muñiz (6 September 1925 – 12 January 2008) was a major Spanish poet of the twentieth century. González was born in Oviedo. He took a law degree at the University of Oviedo and, in 1950, moved to Madrid to work in Civil Administration. It was in Madrid that he first began to write and publish his poetry, becoming friends with many of the leading Spanish writers who encouraged his work. His first book of poems, ''Áspero mundo'' ("Harsh World"), was an immediate critical success. His second book, ''Grado elemental'' ("Elementary Grade"), was published in Paris and won the prestigious Antonio Machado Prize for Poetry. He published eight more books of poetry and edited several anthologies and books of literary criticism, including critical editions on the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez and Antonio Machado. Two books have appeared in English translation: ''Harsh World and Other Poems'' (Princeton University Press, 1977, translated by Donald Walsh) and ''Asto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Gil De Biedma
Jaime Gil de Biedma y Alba (13 November 1929 – 8 January 1990) was a Spanish post-Civil War poet. He was born in Nava de la Asunción on 13 November 1929. He stopped writing poetry some ten years before his death. He insisted that the character he had invented, the ''poet'' Jaime Gil de Biedma, as opposed to the respectable bourgeois businessman of the same name, had nothing left to say and he refused to go on playing the role of a poet in literary society. He died on 8 January 1990 of complications due to AIDS. from ''www.diariodejerez.es'' 15 January 2010 English influence Among his readers, he is considered one of the most consummate |
Juan García Hortelano
Juan García Hortelano (14 February 1928 – 3 April 1992) was a Spanish writer. He was born in Madrid on Valentine's Day 1928. His father was a doctor. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, he was sent with his siblings to Cuenca, only returning to Madrid in 1937 where he lived with his maternal grandparents. The libraries at school and home turned him into an avid reader. Following the war, he entered college in 1941, later studying law at Madrid University. He joined the Civil Service in 1953. Throughout his life, he dedicated himself to writing with fervour and discipline without abandoning his administrative job in Madrid. He cultivated friendships with writers and intellectuals of his generation: Juan Benet, Carlos Barral, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Juan Marsé and Ángel González. He won the Premio Biblioteca Breve in 1959 for his novel ''Nuevas amistades'', followed by the Prix Formentor for ''Tormenta de verano'' (translated into English by Ilsa Barea as ''Summer Storm''.) H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Gamoneda
Antonio Gamoneda Lobón (born 30 May 1931) is a Spanish poet, winner of the Cervantes Prize in 2006. Biography Antonio Gamoneda was born in Oviedo, Asturias, on 30 May 1931. His father, also named Antonio, was a modernist poet who published only one book, ''Otra más alta vida'' (''Another higher life'') in 1919. In 1934, already an orphan, he moved with his mother, Amelia Lobon, to León, Spain, León. The presence of his mother as a refuge from the horror and misery of war is seen in all his poetry. In 1936, with schools closed due to the Spanish Civil War, he became literate by reading, on his own, his father's book. The poet lived originally in the main working-class district of León. This place was a privileged post to observe the repression carried out during the war and postwar years. In 1941, he joined the religious school of the Augustinian Fathers and in 1943 dropped out. The day he turned fourteen he started working as a messenger in the Banco de Comercio. He co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Ferrán
Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and in Catalonia it became ''Jaume''. In western Spain Jacobus became ''Iago (other), Iago''; in Portugal it became ''Tiago''. The name ''James, son of Zebedee, Saint James'' developed in Spanish to ''Santiago (name), Santiago'', in Portuguese to ''São Tiago''. The names ''Diego'' (Spanish) and ''Diogo (name), Diogo'' (Portuguese) are also Iberian Peninsula, Iberian versions of ''Jaime''. In the United States, Jaime is used as an independent Grammatical gender#Personal names, masculine given name, along with given name James. For females, it remains less popular, not appearing on the top 1,000 U.S. female names for the past 5 years. People * Jaime, Duke of Braganza, Portuguese nobleman of the 15th/16th centuries, the List of Duk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
