Susana Soca

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Susana Soca

Susana Soca (born July 19, 1906 in Montevideo ; died January 11, 1959 ) was a Uruguayan poet and publicist. During her lifetime she became known as the editor of the transatlantic literary magazine La Licorne in Paris and Montevideo and as a sponsor of European and Latin American writers.

Live and act

Susana Soca was born as Susana Soca Blanco Acevedo . She grew up in a wealthy bourgeois family in Montevideo, which, in the tradition of the Latin American upper class of this era, was connected to France and French culture and maintained lively relationships. Montevideo was a cosmopolitan city at the time. Susana's father, Francisco Soca , was a doctor; he had studied medicine in Paris; her mother, Luisa Blanco Acevedo, came from the aristocracy. When Susana was barely two years old, her parents traveled with her to Paris for the first time and had her baptized in Notre-Dame .

Susana Soca (front center) u. a. with Paul and Nusch Éluard in 1944 on a day of the liberation of Paris

On one of her trips to Paris, which Susana Soca took with her widowed mother in 1938, at the beginning of the Second World War she was forced to extend her stay. She settled in Paris and stayed in a grand hotel for ten years . During this time she began to write poetry in Spanish in order to find her identity and home in the Spanish language , as she later explained in the preface to the poetry collection En un país de la memoria (1959).

La Licorne

In 1947 Susana Soca founded the Cahiers de La Licorne (The Unicorn) in Paris , a transatlantic literary magazine conceived in French , which she designed as an anthology . It offered European writers who had been kept secret during the war or whose works had been scattered about a space for publications and encounters. The first French authors included Paul Éluard , Valentine Hugo , Maurice Blanchot , Roger Caillois , René Char , René Daumal , Jean Paulhan . Latin American authors previously unknown in Europe were introduced for the first time at La Licorne , including Silvina Ocampo and Felisberto Hernández . Susana Soca was a publisher, editor, editor and promoter of writers. Three issues appeared in Paris from 1947 to 1948. In 1948, after the death of her mother, she returned to Montevideo. From 1953 she continued to publish the magazine under the Spanish title Entregas de la Licorne and directed it until her death.

In Paris as in Montevideo, she published texts, poems and essays by important writers and intellectuals of the twentieth century in her literary magazine, wrote numerous literary essays herself, mainly on European writers and artists, and thus acted as a mediator between modern European and Latin American culture . Her literary project La Licorne focused on the ahistorical and timeless aspects of art, beyond ideologies and political engagement. In Montevideo she attracted exiles from Germany, such as the photographer Gisèle Freund , who she knew from Paris, or the journalist J. Hellmut Freund , who lived in Entregas de la Licorne a . a. wrote an essay about the photographer Jeanne Mandello . She continued to make numerous trips to Europe. In her home in Montevideo, she hosted literary meetings, she organized and financed exhibitions introducing European artists to Latin America, and was a patron of Uruguayan writers such as Felisberto Hernández.

Traces of their presence and importance in the sphere of literature and art of the 1940s and 50s can be found in anthologies and diaries by Albert Camus and Cioran , among others , in their correspondence, in images and photographs. Pablo Picasso portrayed Susana Soca in an oil painting that he sent her in the early 1940s. A photograph by André Ostier shows her next to the painting in 1943 in Paris. Gisèle Freund created numerous photo portraits of Susana Soca, which Henri Michaux had commissioned. Susana Soca's poetic work was mostly hidden in her diaries and private during her lifetime. One of her early literary works is her essay on Rainer Maria Rilke , published in the Alfar periodical in 1932 . Poems by Susana Soca were collected for the first time in 1959 in an edition by La Licorne in Uruguay.

death

Susana Soca was killed on the way from Paris to Montevideo in the plane crash of a Super Constellation , flight 502 Hamburg - Paris - Rio de Janeiro , on January 11, 1959. The Lufthansa aircraft had an accident while approaching the Aeroporto Galeão in the Bay of Guanabara . The deceased was buried at the Cementerio Central in Montevideo.

Posthumously

On the occasion of her death, Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem called Susana Soca . Entregas de la Licorne did not appear again until 1961. It was the last issue, Nº 16., in the tradition of the magazine as a homage to Susana Socca with French and Spanish texts by nineteen former employees.

In 2006 she was honored with the photo exhibition Susana Soca et sa constellation vues par Gisèle Freund at the Maison de l'Amérique latine in Paris.

With afterwords by Jorge Luis Borges, Émile Cioran and Henri Michaux and a frontispiece with Gisèle Freund's portrait photograph of Susana Soca from 1939, a French publisher published her poetic work, Oeuvre poétique de Susana Soca , in a bibliophile edition in 2011.

Publications

Susana Soca: En un país de la memoria , title page

Editing

  • Cahiers de La Licorne , Nºs 1-3, Paris 1947-1948
  • Entregas de La Licorne , Nºs 1-16, Montevideo 1953-1961

literature

  • Valentina Litvan: El extraño caso de Susana Soca . In: Raros uruguayos. Nuevas miradas , 5/2010 (Spanish)
  • Valentina Litvan: La Paratopie au center: Le Non-Lieu comme raison d'être de Susana Soca , in: Lectures du Genre:… dans la Production Culturelle Espagnole et Hispano-Américaine (LdG), May 2008; 3.
  • Pedro Luis Barcia: La poesía de Susana Soca , in: Humanidades: revista de la Universidad de Montevideo , Volume 3, Issue 1, 2003, pp. 17–35.
  • Fernando Loustaunau: Susana Soca: La Dame à La Licorne (PDF) In: Revista Iberoamericana (RI), July – December 1992; 58 (160-161), pp. 1015-1025.
  • Esther de Caceres: Introduccion a la lectura de Susana Soca . In: Revista Nacional (Montevideo, Uruguay) , No. 9, 1964, pp. 16-45.

Web links

Commons : Susana Soca  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susana Soca: Poetisa, crítica literaria y difusora generosa de la literatura (Spanish) by Julia Galemire on laondadigital.uy, accessed on September 20, 2015
  2. ^ Daniel Balderston: Soca, Susana . In: Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature 1900-2003 . Routledge 2004, ISBN 978-0-415-30686-7 , p. 543
  3. ^ Bill Marshall: The French Atlantic. Travels in Culture and History . Liverpool University Press 2009, ISBN 978-1-84631-051-5 , pp. 287/288
  4. ^ A b c d e Valentina Litvan: “La paratopie au center: le non-lieu comme raison d'être de Susana Soca” . (PDF) In: Lectures du genre , nº 3/2008, pp. 18–24 (French)
  5. ^ J. Hellmut Freund: Arte foto-gráfica. Alrededor de la producción de Arno y Jeanne Mandello . In: Entregas de la Licorne , Montevideo 1953, pp. 165-174
  6. ↑ u. a. with Victoria Ocampo, Roger Caillois, Felisberto Hernández, Juan Ramón Jiménez, José Bergamín-María Zambrano. Source: Valentina Litvan (2008)
  7. ↑ El extraño caso de Susana Soca (Spanish), accessed September 20, 2015.
  8. ↑ Susana: La Hija de Francisco Soca . ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) at autores.uy (Spanish), accessed on September 21, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / autores.uy
  9. ↑ Luis Jorge Borges: Susana Soca , in ders .: El Hacedor , Obras Completas, Buenos Aires, Emecé Editores, first edition 1960 (PDF).
  10. ↑ Susana Soca had published La Licorne 1/1953 as a homage to Paul Éluard , who had died in 1952, and wrote the introduction and an essay on the poetry of Eluard.
  11. ↑ Jorge Luis Borges, Juana de Ibarbourou , Carlos Sabat Ercasty , Armando Vasseur, Esther de Cáceres , Emilio Oribe , Enrique Lentini , Ricardo Paseyro , Guido Castillo , Marcel Jouhandeau , Jules Supervielle , Henri Michaux , José Bergamín , Jorge Guillén , María Zambrano , Emile Cioran , Sherban Sidéry , Lanza del Vasto and Giuseppe Ungaretti . Source: Valentina Litvan: El extraño caso de Susana Soca , Raros uruguayos. Nuevas miradas 5/2010, pp. 305-319.
  12. ^ Susana Soca et a constellation vues par Gisèle Freund . actuphoto.com, August 3, 2012
  13. ↑ Sables Editions

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Diccionario de literatura española e hispanoamericana , 1993, states 1907 as the year of birth.
  2. ↑ 40 percent of the population were born in Europe.
  3. ↑ Valentina Litvan is a Latin American scholar. In 2008 she published a dissertation on Susana Soca at the University of Paris III: Susana Soca et le champ littéraire uruguayen: projet culturel, pratique et image d'écrivain .
personal data
SURNAME Soca, Susana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soca Blanco Acevedo, Susana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan poet and editor of the literary magazine "La Licorne"
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1959