Salvador Elizondo
Salvador Elizondo Alcalde (born December 19, 1932 in Mexico City , † March 29, 2006 ibid) was a Mexican writer and critic.
Elizondo has worked as a journalist, writer of poems, novels, reviews and scripts. He was also a professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México for 25 years . His best-known works are Farabeuf (1965), El hipogeo Segreto (1968) and El grafografo (1972).
He provided the literary templates for the Mexican films Narda o el verano (1970) and El Desencarnado (1978).
Salvador Elizondo is considered to be the most original and avant-garde writer of the 1960s generation in Mexico. He developed a cosmopolitan literary style, away from the realistic and nationalist currents that dominated the era, with influences from authors such as James Joyce or Ezra Pound .
biography
Salvador Elizondo was born in Mexico City on December 19, 1932, the son of Salvador Elizondo Pani, a diplomat and film producer. He came into contact with film and literature at a very young age. As a child he spent a few years in Germany before the outbreak of World War II and was at a military school in California for three years. He studied fine arts in Mexico City and literature at the universities of Ottawa , Cambridge , Perugia , the Sorbonne and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He was the founder of the magazines SNOB and NuevoCine and collaborated with other magazines, including a. Vuelta and plural y Siempre .
In 1965 he received the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for his novella Farabeuf o la crónica de un instante ( Eng . Farabeuf or the Chronicle of a Moment ). He received a founding scholarship at El Colegio de México , where he studied the Chinese language. He became a professor at UNAM and a scholarship from the Fundación Ford so that he could study in New York and San Francisco.
In 1990 he received the National Literature Prize. He was a member of the Mexican Language Academy from 1976 and from 1981 in the El Colegio Nacional.
Elizondo was married to the Mexican photographer Paulina Lavista for 38 years .
On March 29, 2006, he died of a Mexico City cancer . After Octavio Paz he was the second writer to be given the honor of being laid out in the Palacio de Bellas Artes .
Works
- Poemas, 1960
- Luchino Visconti (crítica), 1963
- Farabeuf o la crónica de un instante (novela), 1965
- German: Farabeuf or the chronicle of a moment . Munich: Hanser, 1969.
- Narda o el verano (cuentos), 1966
- Autobiografía, 1966
- El hipogeo secreto (novela) 1968
- Cuaderno de escritura (crítica y textos), 1969
- El retrato de Zoe (relatos), 1969
- El grafógrafo (textos y relatos), 1972
- Contextos (artículos de crítica), 1973
- Museo poético (antología de poesía mexicana moderna), 1974
- Antología personal (textos inéditos), 1974
- Miscast (Lírica, comedia en tres actos), 1981
- Camera lucida (textos), México, 1983
- La luz que regresa (Textos), 1984
- Elsinore: un cuaderno (relato), 1988
- Estanquillo (textos), 1992
- Teoría del infierno, 1993
- Pasado Anterior 2007
Web links
- Literature by and about Salvador Elizondo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Salvador Elizondo in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Salvador Elizondo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elizondo, Salvador |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Elizondo Alcalde, Salvador (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican writer and critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 2006 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |