This selected edition presents an overview of all of Huidobro's work, from 1914 until 1948, when his final, posthumous volume was published, moving from the early symbolist work, though the high avant-garde phase towards the end of the First World War, then through Altazor and Temblor de cielo, the highpoint of his career (both published in 1931), and on into the quieter late poetry which synthesises the previous work and settles down into a post-vanguard style. Also included are two manifestos and two interviews with the author.
The Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948) is one of the most important figures in 20th-century Hispanic poetry and a pioneering avant-gardist in Spanish. After an early phase writing in a quasi-Symbolist style in his native Santiago, he moved to Paris and threw himself into the local artistic milieu with a passion, quickly becoming a notable figure in avant-garde circles, and publishing a dozen books and chapbooks in the period 1917-1925. He was to reach his artistic maturity in 1931 with the publication of Altazor and Temblor de cielo (Skyquake). While he is mainly remembered today for his poetry, his fiction and other writings are also still worth the reader's attention.
Show moreThis selected edition presents an overview of all of Huidobro's work, from 1914 until 1948, when his final, posthumous volume was published, moving from the early symbolist work, though the high avant-garde phase towards the end of the First World War, then through Altazor and Temblor de cielo, the highpoint of his career (both published in 1931), and on into the quieter late poetry which synthesises the previous work and settles down into a post-vanguard style. Also included are two manifestos and two interviews with the author.
The Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948) is one of the most important figures in 20th-century Hispanic poetry and a pioneering avant-gardist in Spanish. After an early phase writing in a quasi-Symbolist style in his native Santiago, he moved to Paris and threw himself into the local artistic milieu with a passion, quickly becoming a notable figure in avant-garde circles, and publishing a dozen books and chapbooks in the period 1917-1925. He was to reach his artistic maturity in 1931 with the publication of Altazor and Temblor de cielo (Skyquake). While he is mainly remembered today for his poetry, his fiction and other writings are also still worth the reader's attention.
Show moreAvant-garde poet Vicente Huidobro was born into an aristocratic family in Santiago, Chile. He is known as the creator and exponent of the literary movement called Creationism (Creacionismo), which combined aspects of modernism with neo-platonism and the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. After studying literature at the University of Chile, he lived in Paris for about ten years, where he associated with poets and artists such as Pablo Picasso, Guillame Apollinaire, and Pierre Reverdy. Huidobro returned to Chile in the mid-1920s, founded a number of magazines, and ran for the presidency of Chile, ultimately losing the campaign. His most definitive works are Altazor and Temblor de cielo (both 1931). He died in Cartagena, Chile in 1948, at the age of 56.
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