Ildefonso Pereda Valdés

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Ildefonso Pereda Valdés (born March 6, 1899 in Tacuarembó , Dept. Tacuarembó , † July 17, 1996 in Montevideo ) was a writer from Uruguay .

Pereda Valdés studied at the University of Montevideo law . After successfully completing his studies, he got a job as a teacher in Montevideo. In 1920 he founded the literary magazine "Los Nuevos" with Federico Morador and this soon became the mouthpiece of young writers who, like Pereda Valdés, oriented themselves towards the literary life of France and Spain ( Modernismo ).

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In all of his literary work, Pereda Valdés dealt with the cultural diversity of his country. In his poetry he repeatedly addressed the folklore of slaves and Indians, just as he dealt with it in his essays and non-fiction books. His work "El negro en el Uruguay" sparked controversial discussions when it was published.

Works

Poetry

  • La casa illuminada . 1920.
  • La guitarra de los negros . 1926.
  • El libro de la colegiàle . 1921.
  • Música y acero .
  • Raza negra . 1929.

prose

  • El sueño de Chaplin .
  • Un hombre en la paantalla .

Non-fiction

  • Dinámica del folklore . 1966.
  • Línea de color .
  • El negro en el Uruguay. Pasado y presente . 1965.
  • El negro ríoplatense y otros ensayos . 1937.
  • Lo negro y lo mulatto en la poesía cubana . 1970.
  • Negros esclavos y negros libroes .

Translations

literature

  • Paulo de Carvalho Neto: La obra afro-uruguaya de Ildefonso Pereda Valdés. Essayo de crítica de anthropología cultural . Centro de Estudios, Montevideo 1955.
  • Henry A. Holmes: Ildefonso Pereda Valdés y su libro "Negros esclavos y negros libres" . In: Revista Iberoamericana , Vol. 8 (1944), No. 15, pp. 21-29.
  • Dieter Reichardt: Latin American authors. Literary dictionary and bibliography of German translations . Erdmann Verlag, Tübingen 1972, ISBN 3-7711-0152-2 , p. 638.

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personal data
SURNAME Valdés, Ildefonso Pereda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Tacuarembó , Uruguay
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1996
Place of death Montevideo , Uruguay