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Los Papelípolas or The Papelipolas was a group of artists from
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, in the Republic of Colombia arising in the year 1958. Their productions in the fields of theater, the narrative, the drawing, the cinema, the television and especially in the poetry, have been widely recognized and disseminated, even several decades after its dissolution. It was disbanded in the mid-1960s, and the components continued writing independently. The group's name is ''papel'' (paper in Spanish) and ''pola'' (''cerveza'' or beer).


The components

The group's regular payroll poetic Los Papelípolas is limited to six authors: Gustavo Andrade (highlighted in the fields of drama prize, winner in France, Spain,
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, among others, in film as screenwriter of the film '' The River of the Tombs''; librettist of radio, television and short film director and producer of ''La Cantina de José Dolores''). The others were apathetic to the events and to the movies, but with valuable works: Angel Sierra Basto (pseudonym of Victor Manuel Cortes Vargas, poet, education engine in the Huila, and politician, author of ''Dimensions'', 1963 and ''Xenias & Apophoretas of Menein Laos'', 1994), Dario Silva Silva (poet and current archbishop of House on the Rock, one of the forty most influential men of
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according to '' Semana'' magazine); Ruben Morales Buendía (erotic poet and one of the first cartoonists Huila), Julian Polanía Perez (poet and politician, author of ''The concept of Grief'', 1958, and ''Narration of the Living Faces'', 1963) and Luis Ernesto Luna (poet, bureaucrat, dedicated to political propaganda, author of ''Memory of Silence'', 1988). Delimiro Moreno in his work ''The Papelípolas, Poetic Essay on a Generation'' (1995) added to Armando Ceron Castillo (author of ''Beyond Words'', 2010 ) and then talked about Camilo Lara Cuenca as an appendix of them, with a recently published poetic production (''Así Canta mi Lira'', 2005), almost posthumously. The themes and style of these poets were always very heterogeneous group, as their spiritual and political ideology. Two of them, especially with shared affinities with the
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: Angel Sierra Basto and Luis Ernesto Luna.


The attribution of movement

The label of "movement", may be inaccurate. The ideals and artistic group shares similarities with the
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and The Hungry Generation. The papelípolas Angel Sierra Basto and Luis Ernesto Suarez alluded to
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, the
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, Buddhism, to free sexuality, alcohol and drugs as leaks. Other reasons given for giving the label of movement (as Colombian Beat generation, which it shares with the
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Antioquia), was that none of its members turned professional as a response to the educational model of unbridled capitalism. For some, a result of their political ideology, for others, economic limitations, but it is common. All this feeds the decadence French
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(as evident in the prologue of ''dimensions'' of Angel Sierra Basto by Luis Ernesto Suarez and the Thebaid of ''Ananké''), French writers
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('' Les Fleurs du mal''),
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, Arthur Rimbaud and
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of Paul Verlaine, also at Nicaraguan literary modernism
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. Sierra Basto, the more Beat of all, tried to deconstruct the language with their
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, and other poems full of
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s. Meanwhile, the founder of The Papelípolas, Gustavo Andrade was counter to provincial level, with his first Manifesto Papelípolas, letter to Ramiro Bahamón by the poet Silvia Lorenzo to national poets gathered in
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in 1958, and published this year in the first of three Notebooks Huila group:'' Concept of Grief'' with poems Julian Perez Polanía, also with his essay'' Neiva needs a mayor who wants to Neiva'' and enjoying universal recognition plays like cutting. The artistic value of the Papelípolas, was the subject of several pages of authors like David Rivera Moya, Roger Echavarria, Oliver Lis, Delimiro Moreno, Félix Ramiro Losada and Jorge Guebely. However, the label "movement" has been accepted by custom, though its definition has been as diverse and controversial.


The Manifesto of The Papelipolas

The First Manifesto of Papelípolas was a letter from Gustavo Andrade to Ramiro Bahamón, which was filed with the acquiescence of the group by the poet Silvia Lorenzo before nadaístas poets among others in
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in 1958. This manifesto was published in the first of three books published huilenses that (his first broadcast medium), edited by Gustavo Andrade,'' Concept of Grief'' of Julian Perez Polanía.


Publications

Input publications in literary tradition were undoubtedly the Notebooks Huila, achieved by successfully managing Gustavo Andrade Rivera to Intercol (International Petroleum Co.) and then the Echoes Magazine night baccalaureate
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with Angel Sierra Basto in the lead editorial in the year 1963 and 1964. Select publications: *ANDRADE RIVERA, Gustavo, Huila Papers, Printing Department, Neiva 958-1963*ANDRADE RIVERA, Gustavo, Remington 22 and other plays, Colombian Institute of Culture, Canal Ramirez, Bogotá, 1973 *ANDRADE RIVERA, Gustavo, Gustavo Andrade Theatre Rivera, Huila Papers, # 3, Printing Department, sf, Neiva, 1972 *Polanía PÉREZ, Julian, Notion of Grief, in "Journal Huila" # 1, Printing Department, Neiva, 1958 *SIERRA BASTO, Angel ictor Manuel Cortes Vargasin Huila Papers, # 2, Printing Department, Neiva All six poets published in the Journal of the Huila. After the dissolution of the group were other publications, among which are: *LUNA, Luis Ernesto, Memory of Silence. Poems. Journal of Cultural Extension Huilense Institute of Culture, Publishing Company of Huila, Neiva, 1988. *SIERRA BASTO, Angel, Collection Apophoretas Menen Xenias and Laos, Luis Angel Arango Library, 1994, which would be expanded, illustrated and edited by Oliver Lis, with the biography of the poet in 2009. *SILVA SILVA, Darius, The man who escaped from Hell, Editorial Good Seed, Bogotá, 1991.


Dissolution

The solution was placed according to a newspaper article from the 70's attributed to Luis Ernesto Suarez, about the year 1962, claim that we know is false, because the third Huilense ''Notebook'' that is the Angel Sierra Basto ''Dimensions'' is the year 1963, as ''Narration of the Living Faces'' of Julian Polanía Perez. The solution is given almost equal to the group Beat and
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, in the sixties, immersed in countercultural movements. It could happen in the year 1964, with the departure of Gustavo Andrade of
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to
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, hoping some of consecrated as playwright abroad (which succeeded being awarded the prize of the Paris Theatre, among others), or the death of Julian Perez Polanía in a car accident in 1965.


''Papelipolas'', The Movie

In 2013, the writer and filmmaker Oliver Lis and the Spanish producer Blanca Rosa de Aguilar, began shooting the film '' The Papelípolas, Twilight of a Poetic Generation'' with the survivors Armando Ceron Castillo and Dario Silva Silva. Colombian-French-Spanish production, attended by the former Minister of Justice of Colombia,
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, the former governor of Huila, Julio Enrique Ortiz, and the writers Jorge Guebely Ortega and Delimiro Moreno, as the descendants of the poets. The film is part of what its author called Phenomenological Cinema.


Sources

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