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Café Gijón
Café Gijón (Also known as ''Gran Café de Gijón'') is a culturally significant coffeehouseAntonio Espina, «''Las tertulias de Madrid''», Madrid, Alianza, 1995 situated at No. 21,José Esteban,Blanca Mena,Pilar Mateos,Marta Menacho Julián Marcos, Mariano Tudela, (2002), ''«El libro del Café Gijón»'',Madrid in the principal boulevard of central Madrid, Spain, which is known as Paseo de Recoletos. The café is opposite both a railway station of the same name and the National Library of Spain (BNE). The terrace in front is on the central walkway of the Paseo. History It was established on 15 May 1888 by ''Gumersindo Gómez''Angel del Río López, (2003), «''Los viejos cafés de Madrid''», Ed. Madrid, (possibly ''Gunmersindo García''). Despite modest beginnings, after the Spanish Civil War it became a meeting-place for intellectuals, writers and artists collectively known as Generation of '36. It was also known by Hollywood stars and foreign writers such as Ava Gardn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Café Gijón
Café Gijón (Also known as ''Gran Café de Gijón'') is a culturally significant coffeehouseAntonio Espina, «''Las tertulias de Madrid''», Madrid, Alianza, 1995 situated at No. 21,José Esteban,Blanca Mena,Pilar Mateos,Marta Menacho Julián Marcos, Mariano Tudela, (2002), ''«El libro del Café Gijón»'',Madrid in the principal boulevard of central Madrid, Spain, which is known as Paseo de Recoletos. The café is opposite both a railway station of the same name and the National Library of Spain (BNE). The terrace in front is on the central walkway of the Paseo. History It was established on 15 May 1888 by ''Gumersindo Gómez''Angel del Río López, (2003), «''Los viejos cafés de Madrid''», Ed. Madrid, (possibly ''Gunmersindo García''). Despite modest beginnings, after the Spanish Civil War it became a meeting-place for intellectuals, writers and artists collectively known as Generation of '36. It was also known by Hollywood stars and foreign writers such as Ava Gardn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truman Capote
Truman Garcia Capote ( ; born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella '' Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1958) and the true crime novel ''In Cold Blood'' (1966), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." His works have been adapted into more than 20 films and television dramas. Capote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple migrations. He had discovered his calling as a writer by the time he was eight years old, and he honed his writing ability throughout his childhood. He began his professional career writing short stories. The critical success of "Miriam" (1945) attracted the attention of Random House publisher Bennett Cerf and resulted in a contract to write the novel '' Other Voices, Other Rooms'' (1948). Capote earned the most fame with '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramón María Del Valle-Inclán
Ramón or Ramon may refer to: People Given name *Ramon (footballer, born 1998), Brazilian footballer * Ramón (footballer, born 1990), Brazilian footballer *Ramón (singer), Spanish singer who represented Spain in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest * Ramón Blanco y Erenas (1833–1906), Spanish brigadier and colonial administrator of the Philippines *Ramón Castillo (1873-1944), former Argentinian president * Ramon Dekkers, Dutch muay thai fighter *Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866–1936), Spanish dramatist and novelist * Ramón Díaz, Argentine football player and coach * Ramón H. Dovalina (born 1943), American educator *Ramón Emeterio Betances (1827–1898), Puerto Rican nationalist *Ramón Arellano Félix (1964–2002), Mexican drug lord and fugitive * Ramón Fumadó (born 1981), Venezuelan diver * Ramón Fernando García (born 1972), Colombian road cyclist *Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez (born 1940), American actor, using the stage name Martin Sheen * Ramón González (athlete) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schola Philosophicae Initiationis
The Schola Philosophicae Initiationis (School of Philosophical Initiation) was a Theosophical splinter group created in Madrid in 1928 by Eduardo Alfonso and Mario Roso de Luna in response to what they considered the doctrinal deviations of the Theosophical Society, especially in reference to the proclamation of Jiddu Krishnamurti as the World Teacher. Foundation In mid-1921, Mario Roso de Luna, with a dozen companions from Madrid, formed the ''Rama Hesperia,'' which kept close ties with the Theosophical Society Adyar in India as well as with the dissident Theosophical Society Pasadena in California. Around 1928, Roso de Luna and his group founded the initiatic philosophical school ''Schola Philosophicae Initiationis'' (SPI) that was "a reaction against the instability and indiscipline of the Theosophical Society."Alfonso, Eduardo: El porvenir de la Teosofía comprometido por la Sociedad Teosófica The declared objectives of the SPI were "the comparative study of the philos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Benet
Juan Benet (7 October 1927 – 5 January 1993) was a Spanish novelist, dramatist and essayist who also worked as a civil engineer. Early life Benet was born in Madrid. At the start of the Spanish Civil War, his father was killed, and he left for San Sebastián with his family to find refuge. They stayed there until 1939, when they returned to the capital. In 1944, he completed his high school education and in 1948 he entered into the School of Civil Engineering in Madrid. He frequented the discussion group at Café Gijón, in Madrid, where he met the man who would become his best friend, Luis Martín Santos, among other authors of that time. In 1953, still a student, he started an engineering internship in Finland and published his first play, '' Max'', in which one can see the beginnings of a singular literary style that distances itself from the popular themes of Spanish literature of that era. In 1954, Benet finished his engineering degree, and in the following year he marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Umbral
Francisco Alejandro Pérez Martínez (11 May 1932 – 28 August 2007), better known as Francisco Umbral, was a Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist. Style Although he was born in Madrid, a city that has inspired most of his work, his early years were spent in Valladolid. His mother travelled to Madrid for his birth, because he was an illegitimate child. His mother's indifference and distance from him marked him with an enduring sadness, as did the infant death of his only son, from which event was born his saddest and most personal book, ''Mortal y rosa'', (''A Mortal Spring''). This created in the author a characteristic haughty manner, devoid of hopefulness, absolutely submerged in literature, which has provoked many polemics and enmities. In Valladolid he began his journalistic career at ''El Norte de Castilla'', under the tutorship of Miguel Delibes. In 1961 he went to Madrid as a correspondent and quickly became a prestigious reporter and columnist in maga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diego Medrano
Diego Medrano Fernández (Oviedo, Spain, 1978) is a Spanish poet, narrator and regular columnist of Asturian newspaper '' El Comercio''. Life Begins philosophy studies in the Universidad de Oviedo, where, ''"after feeling like Oscar Wilde in prison"'', and telling himself a certain quote by Francois Mauriac -''"Freedom and health are the same thing"''- he soon leaves everything for the sake of his cyclopean literary vocation. ''"Perpetual writer, always writer"'', he is the heir of a tradition that combines decadence and culture in the same identity: Jean Lorrain, Charles Baudelaire, Max Jacob, Arthur Rimbaud, Emile Cioran, Louis Aragon, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Georges Bataille among others. He steps into the world of literature with the book: ''Los héroes inutiles'' (''The Useless Heroes'') ( Ellago Ediciones, 2005), a complete collection of the correspondence that he held with Spanish "damned" writer Leopoldo María Panero, that serves as a literary poetic where the auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Oroza
Carlos Oroza (13 May 1923 – 20 November 2015) was a Spanish poet. Style He is known mainly for the interpretation and performance of his own work. Such work is rare and composed of free verses with a great preponderance of strength and rhythm. Oroza is upon all a great reciter. His poetry is, as music, mainly to be heard because Oroza is a lover of orality, '' 'the loudness of the words' '' as he says. He considers books a '' 'cemetery of signs' ''. He is also considered a wicked poet and an alchemyst. In the 1960s when he was living in Madrid, he became famous in the literary-poetic environment of the Café Gijón, oasis of national coexistence, culture and contra cultural movements during Franco’s dictatorship. At that time he founded, along with Victor Lizarraga and Victoria Paniagua, the Tropos magazine and participated in infinite jazz-poetry recitals. He was living in Madrid, Ibiza and the U.S., where he was awarded with the International Underground Poetry aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Residencia De Estudiantes
The Residencia de Estudiantes, literally the "Student Residence", is a centre of Spanish cultural life in Madrid. The Residence was founded to provide accommodation for students along the lines of classic colleges at Bologna, Salamanca, Cambridge or Oxford. It became established as a cultural institution that helped foster and create the intellectual environment of Spain's brightest young thinkers, writers, and artists. The students there included Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel and Federico García Lorca. Distinguished guests and speakers included Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Juan Ramón Jiménez or Rafael Alberti. It was one of the most vibrant and successful experiences of scientific and artistic creation and exchange of interwar Europe. Its activities were stopped during the Spanish Civil War. After the civil war the academic policies of Francoist Spain created around the ''Residencia de Estudiantes'' the Spanish National Research Council, where it was integrated as the guest h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ateneo De Madrid
The Ateneo de Madrid ("Athenæum of Madrid") is a private cultural institution located in the capital of Spain that was founded in 1835. Its full name is ''Ateneo Científico, Literario y Artístico de Madrid'' ("Scientific, Literary and Artistic Athenæum of Madrid"). History The roots of the Athenæum trace to the ideals of Francophiles and liberals of the early 19th century. After the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the Afrancesado, who had joined the French cause and supported Joseph Bonaparte as king of Spain, were exiled with him upon the triumph of the Supreme Central Junta and the Cortes of Cádiz, which enacted in 1812 the first Spanish liberal constitution. The restoration of Ferdinand VII in 1814 after the previous year's Treaty of Valençay, however, brought a return to absolutism and the flight of the Spanish patriots of Cádiz. Much of the enlightened aristocracy, that for one reason or another had been persecuted in Spain, took refuge in France and England. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
