Antonio Gamoneda

Antonio Gamoneda (2007)

Antonio Gamoneda (born May 30, 1931 in Oviedo , Asturias , Spain ) is a Spanish poet .

Life

Gamoneda's father († 1932) was a modernist poet , whose texts his son probably learned to read. In 1934 Antonio Gamoneda moved with his mother to León, Castilian . In her presence, he flew from the alienation of work. In all of his poetry he returns to the horror and hardship of war and the post-war period, populated with corpses, living and dead. He stayed in León, and since childhood he had a constant experience of poverty , oppression and death. At the age of ten he began his education in a church school, from which he was expelled two years later. With a short and limited academic training he despite the adversities with the High School closes and by reading he learned autodidactically the seal, while working as a messenger in a bank 1945-1969. Since a motionless uprising by a group of friends in intellectual resistance against Franquism , this remained, embittered by the physical or moral disappearance of many of his friends, his main theme and the nucleus of his most important ideas for progressive consciousness.

During this hard but fertile epoch he wrote his first poems (let's leave aside his work on poetry and art criticism): La tierra y los labios (1947–1953; Eng . The earth and the lips), not until the publication of the volume Edad (German age) published, which summarized his poetry until 1987; Sublevación inmóvil (1953–1959; Eng. Motionless uprising) was published in Madrid in 1960 , which earned him a consolation prize at the Adonais poetry prize, which is renowned in Spain. Exentos I (1959–1960; German free I): Poems that first appeared with the volume Edad ; Blues castellano (1961–1966; German Castilian blues), a work that was not published until 1982 due to censorship; Exentos II (Pasión de la mirada) (1963-1970; German free II (passion of the gaze)) in different versions in Leòn 1979 appeared under the title Blick auf León.

This first phase was followed by a poetic silence of seven or eight years, which was marked significantly by the death of the dictator Francisco Franco and the beginning of the so-called “ Transición , which in the poet's words were years”. "The associated depression lasted for years and the poetry was a love present but impossible". For him an ideological crisis had added, sometimes broader, as one can feel in his subsequent work Descripción de la mentira (1977, León; German description of the lie). A long poem that marks a turn towards total poetic maturity. Lápidas (1987, Madrid) and Edad are later published, the volume that collected all of his poetry up to 1987, revised by the author and awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura , Spain's national literary prize.

In 1992 Libro del frío (Eng. Book of Cold) appeared, which made him one of the most important poets in Spanish. In 2000 the final version of the Libro del frío was published , which includes Frío de Límites ( Eng . Coldness of Borders), a work that emerged from the collaboration with Antoni Tàpies , but which breaks away from the image that he is because of the character of Libro del frío . Before that, the poems Mortal 1936 appeared , accompanied by silk prints by Juan Barjola about the carnage during the civil war on the bullring of Badajoz and with Exentos III (1993-1997) were published. De un diccionario relativo a la ciencia médica arcaica (1993-1998; German from a dictionary of archaic medical science) and Libro de los venenos (1995, Madrid; German book of poisons) are rather atypical works that differ from the conviction The author's distinction is that archaic language is aesthetically overloaded until it is transformed into poetry. It reveals the poet's fascination with the translation of Andrés Laguna by Pedanios Dioscurides from the Greek from the 16th century. Century and represents his key poetic interpretation. Arden las pérdidas was published in 2003, which increased the maturity achieved with Descripción de la mentira in a poetry "from the perspective of death" in that which he had lost (childhood, love, the Remnants of the past, the anger ...) still burning from the transition to old age with great clarity, with great coldness. He then sold Cecillla and Esta luz: poesía reunida (1947–2004; Eng . This light: collected poetry) in 2004 .

He leads the Founded in 1877, Foundation Fundación Sierra Pambley that is committed to the education of workers and peasants.

Works

poetry

Sublevación inmóvil, Madrid, Ediciones Rialp, 1960
Descripción de la mentira, León, Institución Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, CSIC, Diputación Provincial, 1977
León de la mirada, León, Espadaña Editorial, 1979
Blues castellano, Gijón, Ediciones Noega, 1982
Lápidas, Madrid, Trieste, 1986
Edad: (poesía 1947–1986), Madrid, Cátedra, 1987
Libro del frío, Madrid, Ediciones Siruela, 1992
Sección de la memoria, Ponferrada, Ayuntamiento, 1993
Poemas, Palma: Universitat de les Illes Balers, Servei de Publicacions i Intercanvi Científic, 1996
Cuaderno de octubre, Madrid, San Roque, 1997
Pavana impura, Huelva, Fundación El Monte, 2000
Sólo luz: antología poética, Valladolid, Castilla y León, Consejería de Educación y Cultura, 2000
Arden las pérdidas, Barcelona, Tusquets Editores, 2003
La voz de Antonio Gamoneda. Madrid, Residencia de estudiantes, 2004
Reescritura, Madrid, Adaba Editores, 2004
Cecilia. Teguise: Fundación César Manrique, 2004
Esta luz: poesía reunida: (1947–2004), Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg: Círculo de Lectores, 2004 (German Esta Luz / This light: an anthology: 1947–2005, Kiel: Verlag Ludwig, 2007)

prose

Relación y fábula, Santander, Editorial Límite, 1997
Descripción del frío, León, Celarayn Editorial, 2002

tries

Echauz. The ideological dimension of the form. Madrid: Ediciones Rayuela, 1978
León, traza y memoria, Madrid, A. Machón, 1984
Zamora. Fotografías, León, Editorial Everest, 1987
El cuerpo de los símbolos. Madrid, Huerga y Fierro. Editores, 1997
Libro de los venenos: corrupción y fábula del libro sexto de Pedacio Dioscórides y Andrés de Laguna acerca de los venenos mortíferos y de las fieras que arrojan de sí ponzoña, Madrid, Ediciones Siruela, 1997
Conocimiento, revelación, lenguajes, León, IES “Lancia”, La Biblioteca, 2000

Community works

Los jóvenes. León, Editorial Everest, 1970
Tres poemas provisionales, Arteguía, 46, (1979)
Dos poetas en su voz, Valladolid, Ediciones Portuguesas, 1992
Tauromaquia: mortal 1936, Mérida, Asamblea de Extremadura, 1994
Encuentro en el territorio del frío, León, Instituto Leonés de Cultura, 1995
La alegría de los naufragios. Madrid, Huerga y Fierro Editores, 1999
Eros y thánatos: pinturas de Álvaro Delgado con once poemas de Antonio Gamoneda: (exposición del 12 de enero al 6 de febrero del 2000), Madrid, Círculo de Bellas Artes, 2000
Un bosque en obras: vanguardias en la escultura en madera, Segovia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, 2000
Juan Barjola, Vitoria, Fundación Caja Vital Kutxa, 2002
Antonio Gamoneda, Madrid, Calambur Editorial, 2003

Awards and honors

European Prize for Literature (2005)
Cervantes Prize (2006)
Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana (2006)
Premio Nacional de Literatura (1987)

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Gamoneda, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish poet
DATE OF BIRTH	May 30, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oviedo , Asturias , Spain