José Lezama Lima
José Lezama Lima (born December 19, 1910 in Havana , Cuba ; † August 9, 1976 ibid) was an important Cuban poet and essayist with a strong influence on modern Cuban literature .
Life
José Lezama Lima studied law and received his doctorate in law in 1938. In 1945 he became head of the cultural department of the Ministry of Education. He traveled to Mexico (1949) and Jamaica (1950) and was editor of various literary magazines . After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Lezama Lima became director of the literary department of the National Council for Culture . In 1962 he became vice-president of UNEAC ( Unión de Escritores e Artistas de Cuba - Cuba's Writers and Artists Association ). In his research work at the Institute for Literature and Linguistics and at the Casa de las Américas (House of the Two Americas) cultural institute , he was the author of numerous articles in literary and cultural journals.
He was the founder and director of the literary magazines Verbum (1937), Espuela de Plata (1939), Nadie parecía (1942) and Orígenes (1944). The latter in particular had a decisive influence on the development of a group of contemporary Cuban poets. His first volume of poetry, Muerte de Narciso (Death of Narcissus, 1937) already shows the poet's baroque imagination and his rich cultural background, which then rumor in Enemigo (Hostile Rumors, 1941), Aventuras sigilosas (1945), La fijeza (1949) and Dador (1960) are further typical features for the spelling of Lezama Lima.
From the 1950s at the latest and until his death, Lezama Lima was seen by many young Cuban intellectuals as a kind of teacher.
Works
His prose works are closely related to his lyrical work:
- Analecta del reloj (1953)
- Tratados en La Habana (Treatises in Havana, 1958)
- Coloquio con Juan Ramón Jiménez (Colloquium with Juán Ramón Jiménez, 1938)
- La expresión americana (1957, The American Expressive World, Ger. 1992)
- Islas (Islands, 1961)
- La cantidad hechizada (1970)
- Paradiso (1966, German 1979), novel
- Oppiano Licario (1977, Inferno. Oppiano Licario, German 2004)
He also wrote essays on the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega , Luis de Góngora , Paul Valéry , Stéphane Mallarmé and others.
bibliography
- William Navarrete and Regina Avila: Aldabonazo en Trocadero 162 , Ed. Aduana Vieja, Valencia, 2008
Web links
- Literature by and about José Lezama Lima in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about José Lezama Lima in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Literature by and about Lezama Lima in the catalog of the library of the Instituto Cervantes in Germany
- Invisible eras . Audio play about José Lezema Lima by Alban Nikolai Herbst . [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lezama Lima, José |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cuban writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Havana |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1976 |
| Place of death | Havana |