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Teófilo Cid
Teófilo Cid (September 27, 1914 – June 15, 1964) was a Chilean poet. He was a member of the Chilean Generación del 38 or Generation of 1938, but was a member of the small Surrealist group in the generation, known as La Mandrágora. Other poets of this elite group were Braulio Arenas and Enrique Gómez Correa Enrique Gómez Correa (1915, in Talca – 1995, in Santiago de Chile) was a Chilean poet, lawyer and diplomat. Biography He studied at the Lyceum for Boys at Abate Molina de Talca, his hometown, where he met Braulio Arenas and Teófilo Cid, w .... After living an unrestrained life, he died before reaching 50 years of age. He was awarded a number of prizes. He published a number of books including ''Bouldroud'' (1942), ''El tiempo de la sospecha'', lit. ''Time of the Suspect'' (1952) which was about critical views of the dictator Carlos Ibáñez del Campo who ran from 1927 until 1931, ''Camino del Ñielol'' (1954) which contains a long poem of a thousand verses. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of , with a population of 17.5 million as of 2017. It shares land borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the north-east, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chile also controls the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island in Oceania. It also claims about of Antarctica under the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The country's capital and largest city is Santiago, and its national language is Spanish. Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacing Inca rule, but failing to conquer the independent Mapuche who inhabited what is now south-central Chile. In 1818, after declaring in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Generación Del 38
The Generation of '38 ( es, Generación del 38) was a Chilean artistic-literary movement that tried to portray the social decline of the time in its works. It became prominent in the cultural panorama of the 1930s. Historical context In 1937, after two mandates by Arturo Alessandri Palma, the Popular Front took over the Chilean government. The international situation was critical, marked by the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and by the imminent outbreak of World War II (1939–1945). This affected conditions for the majority of the population. Economic context Chile was undergoing a process of economic transition, as its main source of livelihood was the agricultural sector, but interest in industrialization was growing. This had dire consequences for the mining sector, as production of saltpeter ceased, and consequently many unemployed northern miners decided to travel to the capital in search of new job opportunities. Characteristics of the group Due to the great social tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Mandrágora
''La Mandrágora'' (Spanish for ''The Mandrake'') was a Chilean Surrealist group "officially founded" on 12 July 1938 by Braulio Arenas (1913-1988), Teófilo Cid and Enrique Gómez Correa.La Mandrágora article The group had met in and first started exchanging in 1932. They published an eponymous review (of which 7 issues were edited at a small scale, the last issue being edited in October 1943) and an anthology of poetry, ''El A, G, C de la Mandrágora'', which included works by all founders except Teófilo Cid. Politically, the group supported the |
Braulio Arenas
Braulio Arenas ( La Serena, April 4, 1913 - †Santiago May 12, 1988) was a Chilean poet and writer, founder of the surrealist '' Mandrágora'' group. Life Braulio Arenas lived most of his youth in the north of Chile, moving in his teens to Talca to study. There he encountered Teófilo Cid and Enrique Gómez Correa among others, and participated to literary activities with them. Years later, he started law studies in Santiago, which he soon abandoned to focus on writing. Through Eduardo Anguita, he met Vicente Huidobro, father of "Creationism" literary movement, which disputed literary innovations with Dada and Surrealism. Influenced by these European currents, Arenas founded with some friends, in 1938, the Surrealist group '' Mandrágora''. This circle supported the Popular Front government. The same year, one of his short story, ''Gehenna'', was published in Miguel Serrano's ''Antología del verdadero cuento en Chile''. Arenas received in 1984 the Chilean National Prize for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Gómez Correa
Enrique Gómez Correa (1915, in Talca – 1995, in Santiago de Chile) was a Chilean poet, lawyer and diplomat. Biography He studied at the Lyceum for Boys at Abate Molina de Talca, his hometown, where he met Braulio Arenas and Teófilo Cid, with whom he founded the Chilean surrealist '' Mandrágora'' group on 18 July 1938, at the University of Chile. Gomez Correa did well at university. His thesis to obtain his lawyer diploma was entitled ''Sociology of Madness'', published in 1942, which was also influenced by surrealism. It addressed the issue of mental illness and the approach of madness in society, while also articulating the judicial, social and poetic aspects of this condition. Gomez Correa went to Paris, where he lived from 1949 to 1951 with the main members of French surrealism. He established links with André Breton and especially with the painters Jacques Hérold and René Magritte. In 1948, he wrote ''The spectrum of René Magritte'' as a tribute to the Belgian pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Ibáñez Del Campo
General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (; 3 November 1877 – 28 April 1960) was a Chilean Army officer and political figure. He served as President twice, first between 1927 and 1931, and then from 1952 to 1958, serving for 10 years in office. The coups of 1924 and 1925 The presidency of Arturo Alessandri saw a rise in popular discontent over an inefficient government. In 1924, the Chilean armed forces, led by General Luis Altamirano, began the ''saber-rattling'' (''ruido de sables''), a protest where soldiers banged their sabers against the floor of the Congress. Amid threats from the armed forces, Alessandri decided he could no longer govern and submitted his resignation. Although this resignation was not approved by Congress, Alessandri left the country and Altamirano established a military junta. However, another faction of the armed forces, led by Colonel Marmaduke Grove and Lieutenant Colonel Ibáñez, decided the junta's reforms did not go far enough in ending the govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfonso Calderón (poet)
Alfonso Calderón Squadritto (November 21, 1930 – August 8, 2009) was a Chilean people, Chilean poet and writer. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1998. He had been a member of the Academia Chilena de la Lengua (Chilean Academy of Language) since 1981. He died on August 8, 2009 having suffered a heart attack. Biography His secondary school years were spent in the Liceos of Los Ángeles, Bío Bío, Los Ángeles, Temuco and in the Internado Nacional Barros Arana in Santiago, and completed his qualification in the Instituto Pedagógico de la Universidad de Chile in 1952. After a stint as a Spanish teacher in the :es:Liceo de Hombres de La Serena, Liceo de Hombres de La Serena from 1952 to 1964, he returned to Santiago to teach in the Institute of Chilean Literature of the University of Chile. He also taught in the University's School of Journalism, was head of the School of Journalism of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, professor of writing ski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilean Male Poets
Chilean may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Chile, a country in South America * Chilean people * Chilean Spanish * Chilean culture * Chilean cuisine * Chilean Americans See also *List of Chileans This is a list of Chileans who are famous or notable. Economists * Ricardo J. Caballero – MIT professor, Department of Economics * Sebastián Edwards – UCLA professor, former World Bank officer (1993–1996), prolific author and media per ... * {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surrealist Poets
This is a list of Surrealist poets, known for writing material within the Surrealist cultural movement that began in the early 1920s. Surrealist poets * Will Alexander (born 1948) - American Surrealist poet, novelist, essayist, playwright * Louis Aragon (1897–1982) - French poet who co-founded the surrealist review ''Littérature'' * Braulio Arenas (1913–1988) - Chilean poet and writer, founder of the surrealist '' Mandrágora'' group * Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) - French poet, essayist, and dramatist who created the "Theatre of Cruelty" * André Breton (1896–1966) - French poet and writer known as the leader and principal theorist of surrealism * Jorge Cáceres (1923–1949) - Chilean poet and artist, a member of La Mandrágora, a Chilean Surrealist group * Jibanananda Das ((17 February 1899 – 22 October 1954) - indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in the Bengali language * Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) - French and Martinican Surrealist poet and a founder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilean Literature
Chilean literature refers to all written or literary work produced in Chile or by Chilean writers. The literature of Chile is usually written in Spanish. Chile has a rich literary tradition and has been home to two Nobel prize winners, the poets Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda. It has also seen three winners of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, considered one of the most important Spanish language literature prizes: the novelist, journalist and diplomat Jorge Edwards (1998), and the poets Gonzalo Rojas (2003) and Nicanor Parra (2011). Chilean literature during conquest and colonial times As the native cultures of the territories known today as Chile had no written tradition, (please see Mapudungun alphabet), Chilean literature was born during the Spanish conquest of the 1500s. The conquistador Pedro de Valdivia wrote letters to the king, Charles V (Carlos Primero de España), and in one of these letters, of 1554, he admiringly describes the natural beauty and landscape of the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914 Births
This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It also saw the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line. Events January * January 1 – The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the United States starts services between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with Tony Jannus (the first federally-licensed pilot) conveying passengers in a Benoist XIV flying boat. Abram C. Pheil, mayor of St. Petersburg, is the first airline passenger, and over 3,000 people witness the first departure. * January 11 – The Sakurajima volcano in Japan begins to erupt, becoming effusive after a very large earthquake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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