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José Moreno Villa (born February 16, 1887 in Málaga , † April 25, 1955 in Mexico ) was a Spanish poet, translator, essayist, artist, archivist and university lecturer. He belonged to the Generación del 27 group .

Life

After completing his school education in Málaga, Villa first studied chemistry in Freiburg im Breisgau . He returned to Málaga in 1910 and then lived as a translator in Madrid, where he came into contact with Ortega y Gasset , Enrique de Mesa , Ramón Pérez de Ayala , Enrique Díez Canedo , Juan Ramón Jiménez and Pío Baroja . From 1916 to 1921 he worked for Editorial Calleja and published in national magazines. Villa translated among others the writings of Heinrich Wölfflin , as a painter he was close to Surrealism .

For almost 20 years he lived in the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, which also functions as a cultural center . During the Second Spanish Republic , Villa was appointed palace archivist of the Royal Castle and wrote a lot in El Sol .

When the Spanish Civil War broke out, Villa moved to Valencia , then to the United States and finally to Mexico.

Works (selection)

Poems

  • Garba (1913)
  • El pasajero (1914)
  • Luchas de Pena y Alegría y su transfiguración (1915)
  • Evoluciones. Cuentos, Caprichos, Bestiario, Epitafios y Obras paralelas (1918)
  • Colección. Poesías (1924)
  • Jacinta la Pelirroja. Poema en poemas y dibujos (1929)
  • Carambas (1931)
  • Puentes que no acaban. Poemas (1933)
  • Salón sin muros (1936)
  • Puerta severa (1941)
  • La noche del Verbo (1942)
  • Voz en vuelo a su cuna (Avance de ese libro inédito) Ed. Ángel Caffarena Such (1961)
  • Voz en vuelo a su cuna prologue León Felipe , epilogue Juan Rejano (1961)
  • Poesías completas Ed. Juan Pérez de Ayala (1998)
  • La música que llevaba. Antología poética Ed. Juan Cano Ballesta (2010)

prose

  • Velázquez (1920)
  • Patrañas (1921)
  • Dibujos del Instituto Jovellanos (1926)
  • Pruebas de Nueva York (1927)
  • Locos, enanos, negros y niños palaciegos (1939)
  • Cornucopia de México (1940)
  • Doce manos mexicanas, datos para la historia literaria (1941)
  • La escultura colonial mexicana (1941)
  • Vida en claro, Autobiografía (1944)
  • Leyendo a San Juan de la Cruz, Garcilaso, Fr. Luis de León, Bécquer, etc (1944)
  • Probetería y locura (1945)
  • Lo que sabía mi loro (1945)
  • Lo mexicano en las artes plásticas (1948)
  • Los autores como actores (1951)
  • Análisis de los poemas de Picasso (1996)
  • José Moreno Villa escribe artículos (1906-1937) ed. Carolina Galán Caballero (1999)
  • Temas de arte ed. Humberto Huergo (2001)
  • Ideografías de José Moreno Villa (2007)

literature

  • José Moreno Villa in the context of the 27th Symposium Report , Spanish

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personal data
SURNAME Moreno Villa, José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish poet, translator, essayist, artist, archivist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Málaga
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1955
Place of death Mexico