Eduardo Barrios

Eduardo Barrios ( born October 25, 1884 in Valparaíso, † September 13, 1963 in Santiago) was a Chilean playwright and storyteller in the tradition of realism. He was also briefly twice Minister of State for Education: between November 1927 and October 1928 and October 1953 to June 1954.

Life and work

Barrios ' mother came from Peru. His father, a Chilean officer, died a few years after the birth of the son, Barrios spent his childhood mostly in Lima. Returned to Chile in 1900, he attended college and a military academy, but proved to be too little adaptable to pursue as his father an officer's career. Instead, he moved as a casual laborer for several years through Latin America. He held, inter alia, to portering, circus acrobat, gold mining on water. Back in Chile, he worked from 1909 in the university administration, then as a stenographer of the Chamber of Deputies, until finally he was curator of the National Library. He also made ​​his journalistic work with a name, such as for the newspapers La Mañana and El Mercurio and the magazine Zig Zag. From 1927 until his retirement in 1960, Barrios director of the state libraries, with a brief interruption as education minister ( in the government of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo).

His debut as a narrator he had in 1907 with the book The Nature - realistic stories that remind some critics to Hugo or Zola. His breakthrough came in 1915 with the novel The boy who was madly in love, in which he rolls up the " insane ", ultimately tragic love of a child to an adult woman. The focus of the award-winning novel The Huaso of 1948 is a former landowner, Pedro José Valverde. Barrioso proves here his knowledgeable sympathy for the rural population. After award of the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1946 and the Premio Atenea que otorga the University of Concepción in 1949 Barrios was appointed in 1953 in the Chilean Academy of Language and Arts.

Works

  • Del natural, short stories, 1907
  • Mercaderes en el templo, Drama, 1910 ( competition winners )
  • Por el decoro, Drama, 1913
  • Lo que la vida Niega, Drama, 1914
  • El niño que enloqueció de amor, novel, 1915
  • Vivir, Drama, 1916
  • Un Perdido, novel, 1918
  • Papá y mamá, short stories, 1920
  • El hermano asno, novel, 1922 ( describes life in a Franciscan monastery)
  • Páginas de un pobre diablo, short stories, 1923
  • Y la vida sigue, short stories, 1925
  • Tamarugal novel 1944
  • Teatro Escogido, Selected dramas, 1947
  • Gran señor y Rajadiablos, novel, 1948 ( dts. The Huaso: Chile novel, Munich 1961)
  • Los Hombres del Hombre, novel, 1950
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