Domingo Acosta Guión

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Domingo Acosta Guión (pseudonyms: Telmo ; Gavroche - dt. "Newspaper boy"; Pobrecito hablador - dt. "The poor babbler"; * April 14, 1884 in Santa Cruz de La Palma ; † November 15, 1959 ibid) was a Spanish journalist , Theater critic, popular poet and playwright and municipal official who lived on La Palma .

life and work

Acosta Guión was the son of the owner of a small beverage factory. He worked as a carpenter, tobacco worker, journalist, and finally as a city official and notary . For the theater he began to be interested under the influence of Hermenegildo Rodríguez Méndez (1870-1922), one of the most prolific playwrights of the Canary Islands , who wrote late romantic dramas and texts for illustrious festivals. His liberal stance also shaped the republican spirit of Acosta, who belonged to a Masonic lodge with his brother Juan . He was chairman of the local Republican Youth ( Juventud Republicana ) and took part in the International Freethinker Congress in Paris in September 1905 .

Since the end of the 19th century, Acosta has published articles, satires , pamphlets and serious and jocular sonnets , children's songs and other poems in various daily newspapers and magazines in the Canary Islands, but also in a Cuban magazine . In it he turned against social injustice, decadence and the satiated and comfortable demeanor of his fellow citizens and thus became an unofficial chronicler of the poor island of La Palma. He also wrote about 10 short plays, mostly social comedies, such as marital dialogues, in which he criticized the alcoholism that was widespread on the island. The first three of these pieces were published in a brochure in 1910.

Acosta often recited his verses "out of his pocket"; he always carried notes with copies of his poems in his pockets to distribute and read to his friends.

After the civil war he had to give up his job with the city of Santa Cruz and complained about the social, economic and cultural regression. His works were ignored because of his republican attitude and partly destroyed. It was not until 1987 and 1988 that the Canarian government issued two volumes with “serious” and “joking” texts by Acosta. His estate has been in the general archive of La Palma since 2017.

Works

  • Cartas a mis nietos: recopilación homenaje a Domingo Acosta Guión en el centenario de su nacimiento , 1984
  • Por los caminos perdidos: antología poética 1884-1959 , 1987
  • Al pan, pan y al vino, vino: versos de 'bolsillo': antología , 1988
  • ¿A quién se lo cuento ?: desde la prosa de combate a las candorosas canciones infantiles , published by the Centro de la Cultura Popular Canaria, La Laguna (Tenerife), 1990.
  • Antología poética. Edited by the Centro de la Cultura Popular Canaria, La Laguna (Tenerife), 1998, ISBN 978-84-7926-286-0 .

literature

  • Pilar Rey, Antonio Abdo: Domingo Acosta Guión, Esencia de la Palma (German / Spanish, with text samples). In: Wulf Göbel, Alberto Linares Brito, Claudia Gehrke (eds.): Canarias: Canarian reading book. Tübingen undated, pp. 474-480.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ After the Ermita de San Telmo in the upper town of Santa Cruz de la Palma.
  2. ↑ Based on the title of a book by Mariano José de Larra with satirical articles from the years 1832–1836.
  3. ^ Pilar Rey, Antonio Abdo, p. 474.
  4. ↑ La Palma recibe un fondo documental sobre el poeta Domingo Acosta Guión , on: dragaria.es, September 1, 2017 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Acosta Guión, Domingo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acosta Guion, Domingo; Telmo (pseudonym); Gavroche (pseudonym); Pobrecito hablador (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Cruz de La Palma
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1959
Place of death Santa Cruz de La Palma