Rosalía de Castro

Rosalía de Castro ( born February 21, 1837 in Santiago de Compostela, † July 15, 1885 in Padrón, Galicia ) was a Spanish poet who contributed with their works for re- appreciation of the Galician language.

• 2.3.1 Poetry
• 2.3.2 novels

Life

Rosalía de Castro was born the illegitimate daughter of María Teresa de la Cruz de Castro y AbadÃa (1804-1862) and José Martínez Viojo (1798-1871), and baptized on the name María Rosalía Rita. In her birth certificate her father is not listed; this was a seminarian and later chaplain in the small community of Iria Flavia in Padrón. About her time as a child and young people is generally very little known. She grew up with her ​​arch-Catholic paternal aunts in the village Ortoño up and could not return until the age of 10 years to her mother, who was a lady from an impoverished aristocratic family. In all probability, Rosalía de Castro attended the school of " Sociedad Económica de amigos del País ", where she took lessons in music and drawing. She also played the lead role in the play of Antonio Gil y Zárate Rosmunda in Liceo de la Juventud. There she had the opportunity to meet people of intellectual life, which should play an important role in the Galician Renaissance later. Among Aurelio Aguirre, Eduardo Pondal, Alberto Camino, Rodríguez Seoane and Manuel Murguía, her future husband.

Rosalía de Castro married him at a young age, on 10 October 1858. Manuel Murguía was a chronicler in Galicia, who wrote for various newspapers Madrid. With him it was due to his work as a journalist, always on the move: Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Vigo, Lugo, Simancas, Padrón were stages in their lives. A year after their marriage, daughter Alejandra was born. Six more children followed: Aura 1868, the twins Gala and Ovidio 1871, and Amara, 1873 and finally 1875 Adriano, the result of an accident was killed and a half years later. The last daughter Valentina was born in 1877 died.

Sometimes they lived together with her husband, sometimes with her ​​mother, who died in 1862, sometimes even with their children. Rosalía had permanently struggling with health and financial problems. She was very homely and devoted to the children and her husband. By itself, Rosalía de Castro urged not to prominence and fame. So it was her husband, who convinced them to publish their works.

She died at the age of 48 at her home in Padrón cancer of the uterus, where it was set up in honor of a museum. She was buried according to their desire in the cemetery of Adina in Iria Flavia, a small hamlet near Padrón. Later her body into the " Panteon de Galegos Ilustres de Santo Domingo de Bonaval " in Santiago was transferred.

Work

Despite the fact that Rosalía de Castro wrote the greater part of their work in Spanish, their work is of essential importance for the re- appreciation of the Galician language and Galician literature. She was so until 1881 a central figure of a movement that called itself " O Rexurdimento " ( resurrection ).

Your first verses she wrote around 12 years. At 17, she was in her " Liceo de San Agustín " already very well known. Her first book was La Flor. Her last work was 1880 Follas novas ( new leaves), a work that is full of melancholy granted a deep insight into their view of life and deals with human existence and the fear of death.

In Cantares Gallegos she writes about the Galician landscape, via the known as " saudade " vague yearning and melancholy and about rural life. Overall, the lyrical work of the author is characterized by a pessimistic mood; Death and pain are common themes. Formally, it is distinguished by innovative rhythms and large metric freedoms, which Rosalía de Castro spearheaded Rubén Darío and other poets of the modernist is.

During her lifetime, the Galician poet remained virtually unnoticed until later it was rediscovered (especially of Azorin ) and contributed significantly to the development of modern poetry in Spain. Today it is also a symbolic figure of the Galician regionalism: Every year is celebrated in her honor the " Día das Letras Galegas " on May 17. Your image was also seen on the earlier 500 - peseta notes.

Complete Edition

• Obras Completas de Rosalía de Castro. Edited by Manuel Arroyo Stephens. 2 vols Madrid: Turner, 1993 ( Biblioteca Castro), ISBN 84-7506-388-8. .

Galician

Poetry

• Cantares gallegos ( Galician Songs ), 1863.
• Follas novas ( New Leaves ), 1880.

Prose

• Contos da Mina terra I ( later under the title Conto galego ) ( 1864)

Spanish

Poetry

• A mi madre (1863, on the occasion of her mother's death )
• En las Orillas del Sar ( On the banks of Sar ), 1884.

Novels

• La hija del mar. Vigo 1859
• Flavio. Madrid 1861
• Ruinas. Madrid 1866
• El caballero de las botas azules. Lugo 1867
• El primer loco. Madrid 1881

German

• On the banks of Sar. Publisher island, Frankfurt 1987, ISBN 3-458-14548-6.
• On the banks of Sar. Poems in Spanish and German. Transmission and afterword by Fritz Vogelgsang. [Frankfurt am Main ]: [ Suhrkamp ], 1991, ISBN 3-458-16164-3.