Gonzalo Arango
Gonzalo Arango (born January 18, 1931 in Andes , Antioquia , † September 25, 1976 in Tocancipá , Cundinamarca ) was a Colombian writer and founder of Nadaism .
Arango comes from a well-to-do family of officials. He studied for three semesters Law at the University of Antioquia , but then broke off the study without a degree. Arango wrote many of his works under the pseudonym "Gonzaloarango".
In 1957 he founded the Nadaism movement (Nadaísmo) in Medellín together with some friends and like-minded people ( Darío Lemos , Humberto Navarro , Mario Arbelaéz and others ) and in the following year he published his "Manifiesto nadaísta". He was influenced u. a. from surrealism , French existentialism and the American beat generation .
Arango worked for many years as a librarian at the University of Medellín , where he was also entrusted with a lectureship in literature for some time.
In 1963 Arango graduated from the Nadaísmo; he published his elegiac poem "Adiós al nadaísmo".
Gonzalo Arango died in Tocancipá on September 25, 1976, at the age of 45, and found his final resting place there.
Works (selection)
- stories
- El oso y el colibri . 1968.
- Sexo y saxofón . 1963.
- Essays
- Prosas empty en la silla eléctrica . 1972.
- Providencia . 1972.
- Poetry
- Obra negra . Editorial Lohlé, Buenos Aires 1974 (Cuadernos latinoamericanos; 13).
- Plays
- Nada bajo el cielo raso y HK 111 . 1960.
- La consagración de la nada y Los ratones van al infierno . 1964.
literature
- E. Escobar: Gonzalo Arango . Bogota 1989.
- Merlin H. Forster: Las vanguardias literarias en México y la América Central. Bibliografía y antología crítica . Vervuert, Frankfurt / M. 2001, ISBN 3-89354-293-0 .
- Dieter Reichardt: Author Lexicon Latin America . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1992, ISBN 3-518-40485-7 , p. 379.
- Armando Romero (ed.): Antología del Nadaísmo . Fundación BBVA, Madrid 2009, ISBN 978-84-92705-01-6 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Arango, Gonzalo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Colombian writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1931 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Andes , Antioquia |
DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1976 |
Place of death | Tocancipá , Cundinamarca |