''La Mandrágora'' (Spanish for ''The

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'') was a

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group "officially founded" on 12 July 1938 by Braulio Arenas (1913-1988), Teófilo Cid and

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.La Mandrágora
article The group had met in

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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

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(1893-1948), who had formed the

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literary movement, had been one of the main intermediaries of Surrealist thought in Chile, through his yearly travels to Paris. The poet

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(1917-2011) was also for a short time member of the group, although he harshly disavowed it years laters. Rojas had introduced the young Jorge Cáceres to Braulio Arenas in 1938. Others collaborators to the movement included Cáceres, Fernando Onfray, Gustavo Osorio, Huidobro,

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, the Venezuelan Juan Sánchez Peláez,Sobre el surrealismo hispanoamericano: el fin de las habladurias
by

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, on

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's ''Antología de la poesía surrealista latinoamericana'', Joaquín Mortiz, México, 1974. as well as the painters Eugenio Vidaurrázaga and Mario Urzúa, the musicians Renato Jara, Alejandro Gaete and Mario Medina, and the artist Ludwig Zeller, among others.

References

External links

Website dedicated to the Mandrágora
on the ''

University of Chile The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.

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