The Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948) is one of the most
important figures in 20th-century Hispanic poetry and, with Cesar
Vallejo, one of the pioneering avant-gardists in Spanish.
Originally from an upper-class Santiago family, Huidobro was
fortunate to have the means to support himself and his family while
he found his artistic way. After an early phase writing in a
quasi-symbolist style in his native city, he moved to Paris and
threw himself into the local artistic milieu with a passion,
quickly becoming a notable figure, publishing a large number of
books in the period 1917-1925. Influenced initially by Apollinaire,
Huidobro quickly befriended both forward-looking French writers
such as Reverdy, Cocteau and Radiguet, and the Spanish expatriate
artists, including Picasso and Juan Gris. He reached his poetic
maturity in 1931 with the publication of two masterpieces: the long
poem, Altazor, and the book-length prose-poem Temblor de cielo
(Skyquake). Two further collections would follow during his
lifetime, both published in Santiago in 1941. While he also
published successful novels and plays, it is for his poetry that he
is best remembered today. El ciudadano del olvido was published in
Santiago in 1941, as one of a pair of volumes that summed up
Huidobro's shorter poems from the mid-1920s to the late 1930s. The
two books show the author as a quieter figure, more mature, but
somewhat ground down by misfortune - he had been forced by economic
circumstances to return to Chile in the early 1930s, and was
subsequently distressed by his lack of recognition in his homeland,
by the rise of Fascism in the 1930s, by the fall of France in 1940,
and by the collapse of his second marriage. The book contains some
of his finest individual poems, less creationist than his previous
efforts, and somewhat more surrealist than he would no doubt have
cared to admit. The book and its companion, Ver y palpar
(forthcoming in this series) are vital to an understanding of the
range and complexity of Huidobro's poetic achievement.
General
| Imprint: |
Shearsman Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
November 2021 |
| Authors: |
Vicente Huidobro
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| Translators: |
Tony Frazer
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
230 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-84861-694-3 |
| Subtitles: |
Spanish
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| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-84861-694-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781848616943 |
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