Gonzalo Arango

Gonzalo Arango ( born January 18, 1931 in Andes, Antioquia, † September 25, 1976 in Tocancipá, Cundinamarca ) was a Colombian writer and founder of Nadaismus.

Arango comes from a well-off family of civil servants. He studied three semesters of law at the Universidad de Antioquia, but then broke off his studies without a degree. Many of his works written Arango under the pseudonym " Gonzaloarango ".

In 1957 he founded together with some friends and like-minded people ( Darío Lemos, Humberto Navarro, Mario Arbelaez and others) in Medellín Nadaismus movement ( Nadaísmo ) and the following year he published his to " Manifiesto nadaísta ". He was influenced, inter alia, by Surrealism, the French Existentialism and the American Beat Generation.

In the day job Arango worked for many years as a librarian at the University of Medellín where he was entrusted for some time as a lecturer in literature.

1963 closed Arango for itself with the Nadaísmo from; he published to his elegiac poem " Adiós al nadaísmo ".

With not yet 45 years Gonzalo Arango died on 25 September 1976 in Tocancipá and found his final resting place.

Works (selection)

• El oso y el colibri. In 1968.
• Sexo y saxophone. In 1963.

• Prosas empty en la silla eléctrica. In 1972.
• Providencia. In 1972.

• Obra Negra. Editorial Lohle, Buenos Aires 1974 ( Cuadernos latinoamericanos; 13).

• Nada bajo el cielo y raso HK 111 1960.
• La consagración de la nada y Los ratones van al infierno. In 1964.