Salvador Elizondo

Salvador Elizondo Alcalde ( born December 19, 1932 in Mexico City; † 29 March 2006 ) was a Mexican writer and critic.

Elizondo has worked as a journalist, writer of poems, short stories, reviews and screenplays. In addition, he spent 25 years a professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His most famous works are Farabeuf (1965 ), El hipogeo Segreto (1968) and El grafografo (1972).

He provided the literary sources for Mexican films Narda o el verano (1970) and El Desencarnado (1978).

Salvador Elizondo is regarded as the most original and avant-garde writers of the generation of the 60's in Mexico. He developed a cosmopolitan literary style, away from the realist and nationalist currents, which dominated the era, with influences of writers like James Joyce or Ezra Pound.

Biography

Salvador Elizondo, was born on December 19, 1932 in Mexico City, the son of Salvador Elizondo Pani, a diplomat and film producer. From a very young age, he came into contact with film and literature. As a child he spent before the outbreak of the Second World War a few years in Germany and spent three years at a military school in California. He studied Fine Arts in Mexico City and literature at the universities of Ottawa, Cambridge, Perugia, at the Sorbonne University and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM). He was the founder of the magazines SNOB and NuevoCine and employees in other journals, including Vuelta and plural y Siempre.

In 1965 he was awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for his novella Farabeuf o la de un instante crónica (German Farabeuf or the chronicle of a moment ). He became a founding fellow at El Colegio de México, where he studied the Chinese language. He became a professor at the UNAM and a scholarship from the Fundación Ford, so that he was able to complete studies in New York and San Francisco.

In 1990 he was awarded the National Literature Prize. He was a member of the Mexican Academy of Language in 1976 and from 1981 at the El Colegio Nacional.

For 38 years Elizondo was married to the Mexican photographer Paulina Lavista.

On 29 March 2006, he died in Mexico City from cancer. According to Octavio Paz, he was the second author, which has been given the honor to be laid out in the Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Works

  • Poemas, 1960
  • Luchino Visconti ( crítica ), 1963
  • Farabeuf o la de un instante crónica ( novela ), 1965 German: Farabeuf or the chronicle of a moment. The Hague: Mouton, 1969.
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