Enrique Amorim

Enrique Amorim ( born July 25, 1900 in Salto, † July 28, 1960 same place ) was an Uruguayan writer. Armed with strong domestic and closeness to nature and an eye for social injustice, he described in his narrative prose, especially the lives of the gauchos and rural workers in the boonies or in the slums of Montevideo. His most acclaimed novels are La carreta (1929 ), El paisano Aguilar (1934 ) and El caballo y su sombra ( 1941). In advanced age, Amorim Uruguayan Communist Party joined.

Life

Amorim grew up on a large estancia ( cattle farm ) in the northern Uruguay. His wealthy father was of Portuguese origin. Amorim has traveled extensively in Europe and Latin America and developed acquaintances and friendships with many of the leading literary figures of his time. Later, he had built a building designed by Le Corbusier house in his birthplace.

In the 1920s Amorim wrote for the Argentine left-wing magazine Los Pensadores, published by the printing Claridad. Both the magazine and the printing were also associated with the leftist Grupo Boedo, which had taken its name from the district Boedo in Buenos Aires.

1947 Amorim officially joined the Communist Party of Uruguay. He was also instrumental in the erection of a monument in Salto in honor of Spanish writer Federico García Lorca.

Although he devoted herself to the brutal and often sordid realities of rural life, writes Harley D. Oberhelman, Amorim tell with tenderness and compassion of the people affected and the overwhelming beauty of the motionless landscape.

Works

Novels

  • La carreta, 1929, German The Carreta ( the cart / the wagon ), Berlin 1937
  • El paisano Aguilar, 1934
  • La edad despareja, 1938
  • El caballo y su sombra ( The Horse and His Shadow ), 1941
  • La luna se Hizo con agua, 1944
  • El asesino desvelado, 1946
  • Feria de farsantes, 1952
  • Eva Burgos, 1960

Short story collections

  • Amorim, 1923
  • Horizon boca y calles, 1926
  • Traffic Authority, 1927
  • La trampa del Pajonal, 1928
  • Del 1 al 6, 1932
  • La plaza de las carretas, 1937
  • Después del temporally, 1953

Poetry

  • Veinte años, 1920
  • Visitas al cielo, 1929
  • Poemas uruguayos, 1935
  • Dos poemas, 1940
  • Primero de Mayo, 1949
  • Quiero, 1954
  • Sonetos de amor de verano, 1958

Plays

  • La segunda sangre, 1950
  • Don Juan 38, 1958
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