Luis Cernuda

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Luis Cernuda's birth house in Seville

Luis Cernuda (born September 21, 1902 in Seville , † November 5, 1963 in Mexico City ) was a Spanish writer , poet and literary critic .

Life

Cernuda was born in Seville. After finishing school, he studied at the University of Seville . There he met the poet and literature professor Pedro Salinas . After his mother's death in 1928, Cernuda left Seville and moved to Madrid , where he quickly became a member of the literary scene of the time. Cernuda was part of the Generación del 27 group in Spain, which also included Federico García Lorca . Cernuda got a one year job at the University of Toulouse . During the Spanish Civil War he was a teacher at the Cranleigh School from 1938worked in England where he taught Spanish and literature. After the Second World War, Cernuda went to Holyoke , Massachusetts , in the United States for a few years in 1947 , where he worked at Mount Holyoke College . Then Cernuda moved to California and finally to Mexico , where he lived in Mexico City until the end of his life.

Cernuda wrote several poems such as Los placeres prohibidos ( Forbidden Pleasures ). He translated various poems and works into the Spanish language. Cernuda was openly homosexual in his later years .

Awards

Works

  • The real and the desire . 1st edition. Reclam, Leipzig 1978 (poems).
  • Reality and desire . 1st edition. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41591-3 (poems in Spanish and German).
  • Poems: Ocnos, Variaciones sobre un tema Mexicano , Written in Water ( Lambda Literary Award )
  • Literary criticism: Literatura Poesia I & II

literature

  • Luis Cernuda, Poesía Completa. Obras Completas , Volume I, Ediciones Siruela, Edición a cargo by Derek Harris and Luis Maristany, Madrid, 1993
  • José María Capote Benot, Luis Cernuda, Antología , Madrid, Cátedra, 1984
  • Octavio Paz , LUIS CERNUDA: Apuntes sobre La realidad y el deseo / La palabra edificante / Juegos de memoria y olvido / La pregunta de Cernuda , Vol. III: Fundación y disidencia. Dominio Hispánico, Primerísima Edición Círculo de Lectores Barcelona, ​​1991, pages 233-276
  • Octavio Paz, LUIS CERNUDA. Obras completas , Vol. II: Excursiones / Incursiones: Dominio Extranjero / Fundación y disidencia: Dominio Hispánico. Tercera Edición [Galaxia Gutenberg] Barcelona, ​​España, 2000, pages 972-1031
  • JA Coleman, Other voices. A study of the late poetry of Luis Cernuda , North Carolina University Press, 1969
  • D. Harris, Luis Cernuda: a Study of the Poetry, London, 1973
  • D. Harris, Luis Cernuda, Madrid, 1977
  • R. Martínez Nadal, Españoles en la Gran Bretaña: Luis Cernuda. El hombre y sus temas ; Madrid, 1983
  • Ph. Silver, Luis Cernuda: el poeta en su leyenda , Madrid, 1972
  • M. Ulacia, L. Cernuda: escritura, cuerpo y deseo , Barcelona, ​​1986

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personal data
SURNAME Cernuda, Luis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cernuda Bidón, Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer, poet and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Seville
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1963
Place of death Mexico city