Jaime Gil de Biedma

Jaime Gil de Biedma ( born November 13, 1929 in Barcelona, † January 8, 1990 ) was a Spanish poet and one of the most important writers of his generation.

Life

Hailing from one of the richest trading houses in Barcelona, he studied law in Barcelona and Salamanca and moved to the state exam in 1953 to Oxford. There he came into contact with the Anglo-Saxon poetry, which greatly influenced him in his work. He was early attracted to Marxism, but by the Communist Party, he was looked down upon because of his openly practiced homosexuality - as well as by those in power in Madrid, which denied him a diplomatic career. In 1955, he joined the family business " Philippines Tobacco ".

José Agustín Goytisolo Along side and Carlos Barral as one of the main exponents of the self-proclaimed Escuela de Barcelona. Back in 1968, looked at Gil de Biedma with his Poemas póstumos his lyrical oeuvre as completed. Its relatively narrow lyrical work, which was published in 1975 under the title Las personas del verbo, makes it one of the most influential Spanish poet of the second half of the 20th century.

Except for a few essays he left a diary in which he, unlike the encrypted expression of his poems very clearly thematized his homosexuality ( Retrato del artista en 1956, 1974, uncensored, 1991).

In 1990, he died of AIDS.

In 2004, his biography of Miguel Dalmau written and filmed by Spanish director Sigfrid Monleón 2009. The film is called El Cónsul de Sodoma (Eng. The Consul of Sodom ).

Works

  • Versos a Carlos Barral (1952 )
  • Según sentencia del tiempo (1953 )
  • Compañeros de viaje (Barcelona: Joaquín Horta, 1959)
  • Moralidades (1966)
  • Poemas póstumos (1968 )
  • Diario del artista seriamente enfermo (1974 ) memorias
  • El pie de la letra: Ensayos 1955-1979 (1980 ), Crítica, Barcelona
  • Antología Poética (1981 ), Alianza, Madrid, ISBN 978-84-2063-568-2
  • Las personas del verbo (1982 ), Seix Barral, Barcelona, ​​ISBN 978-84-3220-780-8
  • Retrato del Artista en 1956 (1974), Península, Madrid, ISBN 978-84-8307-744-3

German translations

  • Jaime Gil de Biedma: Las personas del verbo - The people of the verb. Poems. Bilingual. Translated from Spanish by Sven Limbeck and Manuel Monge Fidalgo, Ivory Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-932245-56-3.
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