Arturo Serrano Plaja

Arturo Serrano Plaja ( 1909 in San Lorenzo de El Escorial , † June 16, 1979 in Santa Barbara ) was a Spanish poet and Romance writer who taught in the United States.

life and work

Serrano Plaja was a poet of the Generación del 36. He fought on the side of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War . In 1939 he left Spain and (after a stay in the concentration camp of Saint-Cyprien (Pyrénées-Orientales) ) went to Chile and Argentina. From 1945 to 1961 he lived in Paris and further qualified as a literary scholar. As such, he went to the United States in 1961 and taught Spanish literary history at the University of Wisconsin with Antonio Sánchez Barbudo , then at the University of Minnesota , and finally from 1967 to 1977 at the University of California at Santa Barbara .

El hombre y el trabajo. Poesía , Barcelona 1938, Madrid 1978 (French by Emmanuel Roblès : Les mains fertiles, Paris 1947)
El realismo español. Ensayo sobre la manera de ser de los españoles, Buenos Aires 1944
Antonio Machado, Buenos Aires 1944
España en la Edad de Oro, Buenos Aires 1944
El Greco, Buenos Aires 1945
(Ed.) Antología de los místicos españoles, Buenos Aires 1946
Galope de la suerte, 1945-1956, Buenos Aires 1958
De Vigny a Kafka, Madrid 1961
La mano de Dios pasa por este perro. Cadena de blanco-spirituals para matar el tiempo como Dios manda, Madrid 1965
El absurdo en Camus y en Calderón de la Barca, Paris 1966
Realismo Magico en Cervantes . "Don Quixote" visto desde "Tom Sawyer" y "El Idiota", Madrid 1967 (American: "Magic" realism in Cervantes : Don Quixote as seen through Tom Sawyer and The Idiot, Berkeley 1970)
El arte comprometido y el compromiso del arte y otros ensayos, Barcelona 1968
Los Alamos oscuros, Barcelona 1970, 1982
La Cacatúa atmosférica, Mexico 1977
¿Es la Religón el opio del pueblo?, Madrid 1978
Descansar en la frontera. Poesía en el exilio (1939-1970), ed. by José Ramón López García and Serge Salaün, Sada 2007

Homenaje a Arturo Serrano Plaja, ed. by José Luis López Aranguren and Antonio Sánchez-Barbudo , Madrid 1985
Poetas en la España leal, Seville 2007
José Ramón López García, Vanguardia, revolución y exilio. La poesía de Arturo Serrano Plaja, Valencia 2008 (Diss. Barcelona 2005)

personal data
SURNAME	Serrano Plaja, Arturo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish poet, Romanist and Hispanist in the USA
DATE OF BIRTH	1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Lorenzo de El Escorial
DATE OF DEATH	June 16, 1979
Place of death	Santa Barbara (California)