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 .