Sunday, January 17, 2016

Camilo Jose Cela made literature a socio-political criticism – Terra Mexico

Possessing a provocative vision reflected in his writing, the writer and academic Spanish Camilo Jose Cela Trulock, in whose honor every year a prize of narrative is delivered, is remembered 14 years after his death, which occurred on January 17, 2012 in Madrid, Spain.

The award given by the Provincial de Guadalajara (Spain), worth seven thousand 500 euros, was delivered last December Queta Garcia Navarro for his book “The Golden Ratio” reported the organizers on their official website.

Camilo Jose Cela, Nobel Prize for Literature (1989) and former member of the Royal Spanish Academy (1957), was born on May 11, 1916 in the Galician town of Iria Flavia Padron, A Coruña, says the website “fundacioncela.wordpress.com”.

His work was characterized by gathering characteristics that arose about their experiences than as integral Franco during the Spanish Civil War, which marked his life context.

Cela, who is recognized for creating a script that combines life and literature attended his first studies in the Faculty of Medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid, who later left school to join the world of letters indicates the portal “www.cervantes.es”.

As a student as listener, Cela was very young his literary vocation so he joined the Faculty of Arts under the tutelage of another Spanish poet Pedro Salinas (1891- 1951).

While in the Faculty related to intellectual and Alonso Zamora Vicente (1916-2006), Maria Zambrano (1904-1991) and Miguel Hernandez (1910-1942), who in parallel Salinas they printed their advice and wisdom which were subsequently taken up in his writing.

Before the birth of his first formal publications, the Spanish raided his law, which also left by the insatiable taste for the written word.

time later and the passion with which Trulock Cela determined his career, appeared “The Family of Pascual Duarte” (1942), first work of Spanish and remembered by the interruption prohibition of the Church in its second edition.

The social criticism and revealing policy in the twentieth century was perhaps the reason for this successful censorship and written through a deliberately rough and heartbreaking prose piece is considered one of the novels most prominent and important of the decade, the site highlights “www.biografiasyvidas.com”.

In Buenos Aires, Argentina came out the second edition of “The Family of Pascual Duarte” piece which began to emerge novels as “rest Pavilion” (1943) “New adventures and misadventures of Lazarillo” (1944), “Journey to the Alcarria” (1948) and “The Galician and his gang” (1949), among others.

Consolidated as a worthy representative of the literature, the Spanish integrated genres such as short stories and travel book his novels, adding to her titles as “The catira” (1955) and collections of short stories “The Windmill” (1956), “Slide hungry” (1962), “Garito of hospicianos” (1963).

Parallel collaborated and participated in publications such as the literary magazine “Papeles de Son Armadams” (1956) of which he was founder and director whose content integrated texts of Spanish writers exiled during the dictatorship Franco according to information released on “www.buscabiografias.com”.

also stressed his appointment as president of the Ateneo de Madrid (1974), a position he rejected as a sign of protest against the execution in March of that year the anarchist Salvador Puig Antich (1948-1974 ).

received various awards for institutions like Birmingham in Britain (1976) with the title of Honorary Doctor of Letters and the American in Puerto Rico with the title of Doctor of Letters.

After his death on January 17, 2002 due to lung failure resulting from tuberculosis he suffered since 1931, the Spanish writer left a large legacy spanning personal documents, books and paintings that protects the Camilo José Cela Foundation which is located in the Iria Flavia.

The institution founded in 1986 by Nobel Prize changed its private character to public in 2012 by decree of the Government of Galicia who named as the Public Foundation Galician Camilo Jose Cela.

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