Rafael Dieste (
Rianxo
Rianxo is a port town and municipality in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain in the province of A Coruña. It has a population of a little over 15,000 and its two main industries are fishing and tourism. The town's yearly c ...
, 1899–
Santiago de Compostela
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, 1981) was a Galician poet, philosopher, short-story writer, and dramatist writing mostly in
Galician language, but also in
Spanish language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in th ...
. He began to write with the encouragement of another Galician poet, Manuel Antonio, wrote for the theatre and wrote widely on aesthics. His stories have been compared to the other-world approach of the graphic art of
M. C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints.
Despite wide popular interest, Escher was for most of his life neglected in t ...
.
His nephew was the Uruguayan structural architect
Eladio Dieste
Eladio Dieste (December 1, 1917 – July 29, 2000) was a Uruguayan engineer who made his reputation by building a range of structures from grain silos, factory sheds, markets and churches, most of them in Uruguay and all of exceptional eleganc ...
, whose approach to architecture may have been in sympathy with his uncle's poetry.
[Seven Structural Engineers: The Felix Candela Lectures ed. Guy Nordenson, Félix Candela, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) - 2008 Page 44 "The poet Rafael Dieste (1899-1981) was an uncle of Eladio. One of his poems speaks of a miller building his mill and engaging in his trade. The poet observes that all the miller's work was directed to practical purposes, down-to-earth and ..."]
Selected works
* Nuevo retablo de las maravillas (1937; The New Marvelous Puppet Show)
* Viaje, duelo y perdición: tragedia, humorada y comedia. 1979
* Viaje y fin de Frontán
* A fiestra baldeira, 1927-1958
* Dos arquivos do trasno, 1926
Further reading
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References
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1899 births
1981 deaths