Rosa Chacel

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Bust of Rosa Chacel in Parque del Campo Grande in Valladolid

Rosa Chacel (born June 3, 1898 in Valladolid , † July 27, 1994 in Madrid ) was a Spanish writer.

Life

As a sickly child, Rosa Chacel was homeschooled by her mother, who was a teacher herself. In 1908 she moved with her family to Madrid, to the Barrio de Maravillas district, to which she would later set a monument in her book of the same name. From 1915 to 1918 she studied sculpture at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. During this time she got to know the Madrid bohemians in various cafés such as “Granja del Henar” and “Botillería de Pombo” as well as in the Ateneo de Madrid and took part in the Ultraísmo avant-garde movement around the magazine Ultra . In 1921 she married the painter Timoteo Pérez Rubio, from whom she had a son named Carlos. Thanks to a grant, they were able to spend the years from 1922 to 1927 in Rome together. In 1924/25 she made the acquaintance of the Surrealists in Paris. During this time Chacel was inspired by reading Nietzsche , Freud , Joyce and Proust ; she frequented the circles of the philosopher José Ortega y Gasset and published in his Revista de Occidente . Other Spanish authors who influenced her work were Ramón María del Valle-Inclán , Miguel de Unamuno , Ramón Gómez de la Serna and Juan Ramón Jiménez .

In 1933 Rosa Chacel spent six months alone in Berlin due to a creative crisis that had been triggered by the death of her mother. During the Second Spanish Republic , she took part in the building of the Popular Front ; she also signed the Manifesto of Anti-Fascist Intellectuals and worked as a medic in the Civil War on the Republican side. As the military situation worsened, Chacel and her son moved back to Barcelona , Valencia and in 1937 to France ; After the fall of the republic and the outbreak of World War II , the family went into exile in Brazil in 1939 , with stops in Buenos Aires . She tried to stay afloat with translations from French and English, but her economic situation remained precarious.

From 1959 to 1961 Chacel received a Guggenheim Fellowship in New York ; from this time on she was able to visit Spain again temporarily. The final return came in 1973 with a grant from the Fundación March. From then on she lived almost continuously in Madrid, and after the end of Franquism , the long overdue revaluation of her work, which had almost been forgotten in Spain, took place. In 1977 her husband, Pérez Rubio, died.

In 1978 she was awarded the “Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas” for her narrative work, in 1988 she received the honorary citizenship of her hometown Valladolid and in 1990 the “Premio Castilla y León de las Letras”. Shortly before her death, King Juan Carlos presented her with the gold medal in fine arts.

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Rosa Chacel is one of the most important Spanish writers in exile. Her novel Teresa is about the mistress of the same name by the Spanish romantic José de Espronceda and was commissioned by Ortega y Gasset for his collection Vidas extraordinarias del Siglo XIX (Extraordinary Life Stories of the 19th Century). Memorias de Leticia Valle is the extraordinary story of an eleven-year-old in which the author's art consists in using literary techniques to suggest rather than describe a very delicate psychological constellation.

Spanish

Novels

  • Estación ida y vuelta (Madrid 1930)
  • Teresa (Buenos Aires 1941).
  • Memorias de Leticia Valle (Buenos Aires 1945). Filmed in 1980 by Miguel Ángel Rivas.
  • La Sinrazón (Buenos Aires 1960)
  • Barrio de Maravillas (Barcelona 1976)
  • Novelas antes de tiempo (Barcelona 1981)
  • Acrópolis (Barcelona 1984)
  • Ciencias naturales (Barcelona 1988)

Stories and short stories

  • Sobre el piélago (Buenos Aires 1952)
  • Ofrenda a una virgen loca (Xalapa [Mexico]: Universidad Veracruzana, 1961)
  • Icada, Nevada, Diada (Barcelona 1971)
  • Balaam y otros cuentos (1989). Children's stories.

Poems

  • A la orilla de un pozo (Madrid 1936). Foreword by Juan Ramón Jiménez
  • Versos prohibidos (Madrid 1978)
  • Poesía (1931–1991) (Barcelona 1992)

Biographies and Diaries

  • Desde el amanecer (Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1972) autobiography.
  • Timoteo Pérez Rubio y sus retratos del jardín (Madrid 1980)
  • Alcancía. Ida (Barcelona 1982)
  • Alcancía. Vuelta (Barcelona 1982)

essay

  • Poesía de la circunstancia. Cómo y porqué de la novela (Bahía Blanca [Argentina], 1958)
  • La confesión (Barcelona 1971)
  • Saturnal (Barcelona 1972)
  • Los títulos (Barcelona 1981) collection of articles
  • Rebañaduras (Valladolid 1986) collection of articles
  • La lectura es secreto (Madrid 1989)

German

  • Teresa . Translated from the Spanish by Michael von Killisch-Horn. Edited by Peter Kultzen. Munich: Kirchheim Verlag, 1996 ISBN 3874100553 .
  • Memoirs of an Eleven Year Old - Leticia Valle . Novel. Translated from the Spanish by Maralde Meyer-Minnemann . Edited by Peter Kultzen. ISBN 3-87410-045-6
  • In the oasis. Novel. Translated from the Spanish by Peter Kultzen. ISBN 3-87410-062-6 (Translation Prize of the Spanish Embassy in Germany 1994)

Prizes and awards

  • Premio Castilla y León de las Letras (1990)
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Valladolid (1989)
  • Honorary Citizenship of Valladolid (1988)
  • Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas (1987)

literature

  • Rodríguez-Fischer, Ana: “Introducción”, in: Chacel, Rosa: Barrio de Maravillas , Madrid: Editorial Castalia, 1993, ISBN 84-7039-667-6
  • Porlan, A .: La sinrazón de Rosa Chacel (interviews). Madrid: Anjana Ediciones, 1984.

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personal data
SURNAME Chacel, pink
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Valladolid
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1994
Place of death Madrid