Eduardo Barrios
Eduardo Barrios (born October 25, 1884 in Valparaíso , † September 13, 1963 in Santiago ) was a Chilean narrator and playwright in the tradition of realism . He was also Minister of State for Education for two short periods: between November 1927 and October 1928 and from October 1953 to June 1954.
life and work
Barrios' mother was from Peru . Since his father, a Chilean officer, died a few years after his son was born, Barrios spent most of his childhood in Lima . Returning to Chile in 1900, he attended college and a military academy, but proved to be insufficiently adaptable to pursue an officer career like his father. Instead, he roamed Latin America as a casual worker for several years. He kept u. a. as a porter, circus acrobat, gold digger over water. Back in Chile, he worked in the university administration from 1909, then as a stenographer for the Chamber of Deputies, until he finally became curator of the national library. In addition, he made a name for himself with journalistic work, for example for the newspapers La Mañana and El Mercurio and the magazine Zig Zag . From 1927 until his retirement in 1960, Barrios was director of the state libraries, with a brief interruption as Minister of Education (in the Carlos Ibáñez del Campo government ).
He made his narrative debut in 1907 with the book Nature - realistic stories that some critics remind of Hugo or Zola . He had his breakthrough in 1915 with the novel The Boy Who Was Crazy With Love , in which he unrolls the "insane", ultimately tragic love of a child for an adult woman. The focus of the award-winning novel The Huaso from 1948 is a former landowner, José Pedro Valverde. Here Barrioso shows his knowledgeable sympathies for the rural population. After receiving the Premio Nacional de Literatura 1946 and the Premio Atenea of the Universidad de Concepción 1948 for Gran señor y rajadiablos , Barrios was appointed to the Chilean Academy of Language and Arts in 1953.
Works
- Del natural , short stories, 1907
- Mercaderes en el templo , Drama, 1910 (competition winner)
- Por el decoro , Drama, 1913
- Lo que niega la vida , drama, 1914
- El niño que enloqueció de amor , novel, 1915
- Vivir , drama, 1916
- Un Perdido , novel, 1918
- Papá y mamá , short stories, 1920
- El hermano asno , novel, 1922 (depicts life in a Franciscan monastery)
- Páginas de un pobre diablo, short stories, 1923
- Y la vida sigue , short stories, 1925
- Tamarugal , novel 1944
- Teatro escogido , Selected Dramas, 1947
- Gran señor y rajadiablos , Roman, 1948 (German : Der Huaso: Chile-Roman , Munich 1961)
- Los Hombres del Hombre , novel, 1950
literature
- Ned J. Davison: The Dramatic Works Of Eduardo Barrios , 1958
- Donald M. Decker: Eduardo Barrios Talks About His Novels , in: Hispania XLV No. 2, 1962
- Ned J. Davison: Eduardo Barrios , New York 1970
- Juan Villegas: Teatro chileno y afianzamientos de los sectores medios , in: Ideologies and Literature 4.17 (September / October 1983), pp. 306-319
- John Walker: Metaphysics and aesthetics in the works of Eduardo Barrios , London 1983
Individual evidence
- ^ John Walker: Metaphysics and aesthetics in the works of Eduardo Barrios , London 1983, p. 36
- ↑ According to this website , accessed on January 13, 2011, the most widely read Chilean novel to date
- ↑ According to the Direccion de Bibliotecas website , accessed on January 13, 2011, Barrios' masterpiece for many connoisseurs
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barrios, Eduardo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean storyteller and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Valparaíso |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1963 |
| Place of death | Santiago de Chile |