Alfredo Bufano

Alfredo Bufano

Alfredo Bufano , origin. Alfredo Rodolfo Bufano , (born August 21, 1895 in Guaymallén , Mendoza province , † October 31, 1950 in San Rafael ) was an Argentine writer.

Bufano came from a very humble background, his parents were immigrants from Italy. Bufano met his rather irregular school attendance with great eagerness to learn. He continued his self-taught on, so that it at the teacher training college was able to pass an examination of San Rafael. Subsequently, he got a job as a teacher for literature and geography there.

In 1934 Bufano was accepted as a member of the Academia Argentina de Letras . According to his own account, no one has ever seen him there. Until 1947 Bufano worked as an employee of the magazine "La Prensa" and then resigned all duties and offices. That year he went on an extensive study trip to and through Spain and North Africa.

Alfredo Bufano died at the age of 55 on October 31, 1950 in San Rafael, where he found his final resting place.

Honors

• 1932 - Prémio Nacional for his work "Romancero"

reception

With his early works Bufano is still considered a typical representative of Modernismo and he oriented himself a. a. to Rubén Darío and Leopoldo Lugones . It was only with his poetry anthology "Poemas de provincia" from 1922 that he found his own style; from the subjective description of feeling to the objective description of nature. In his most recent publications, more political thoughts are incorporated.

Works (selection)

• Canciones de mi casa . 1919.
• Elegía a un soldado muerto por la libertad . 1950.
• Poemas de provincia . 1922.
• El reino alucinante . 1929.
• Romancero . 1932.
• El viajero indeciso . 1917.

literature

• Germán Berdiales: Alfredo R. Bufano. Hombre de sensibilidad y de conducta . Amigos del Libro Argentino, Buenos Aires 1965.
• Ana M. Rodríguez Francia: Perspectivas religiosas en la poesía argentina . El Francotirador, Buenos Aires 1995, ISBN 950-850-075-1 .
• Marina Guntsche: La poesía edénica de Alfredo Bufano . In: Hispania , Vol. 83 (2003), Issue 2, pp. 198-209.
• Dieter Reichardt: Latin American authors. Literary dictionary and bibliography of German translations . Erdmann Verlag, Tübingen 1972, ISBN 3-7711-0152-2 , pp. 44-45.