Vicente Aleixandre

Vicente Aleixandre y Merlos ( born April 26, 1898 in Seville, † December 14, 1984 in Madrid) was a Spanish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977.

Life

Vicente Aleixandre y Merlos was born in 1898 as the son of a locomotive driver in Seville and spent his childhood in Malaga. From 1909 he lived in Madrid, where he studied law and economics. In 1922, he met at the Ateneo in Madrid Rafael Alberti, who is as Aleixandre itself as one of the most important members of the Generación del 27. During these years, he had a passionate relationship with actress Carmen de Granada. He traveled through Portugal, England, Switzerland and France; in silence he began to write his first poems. From this period his very first poem Ambito comes. His original plans to become a businessman, he had to give up for health reasons, and he devoted himself completely from 1925 literature.

1934, the Spanish National Prize for Literature, he was awarded for his work La destruccion o el amor. Due to the anti-fascist character of his works he had from 1936 to 1944 publication ban, but that he handled by clandestine publications over the years. In 1950 he became a member of the Real Academia Española.

Literary classification

Vicente Aleixandres work can be divided into three eras. In his early work he was under the influence of surrealism, his works are characterized by individualism, pessimism and inaccessible language. The culmination of this development, he reached with Sombra del paraíso.

Later, sat down in his works the awareness of the community through the language was simple and accessible. The main works of this period are Historia del corazón and En un vasto dominio.

In his late work is distinguished from increasing the awareness of mortality. With serene and tragic voice, he sings of the impending death. The works of this period are Poemas de la consumación, Sonido de la guerra del conocimiento and Diálogos.

Works

German editions

  • Naked as the glowing stone. Poems, Spanish / German. Translated and with an afterword by Erich Arendt and Katja Hayek Arendt, ISBN 3-499-25096-9 Rowohlt 1977
  • History of heart. Novel. Coron -Verlag, Zurich, Issue Nobel Prize in 1977.
  • The destruction or love. Poems, Spanish and German. Translated by Fritz Vogelgsang, 1978 ISBN 3-12-900141-7
  • Poems, Spanish - German. Reclam, 1980. Translated from Spanish by Erich Arendt, Katja Hayek Arendt and Fritz Rudolf Fries. With an essay by Arendt and two interviews with the author.
  • Face behind glass. Poems / dialogs. Translated by Fritz Rudolf Fries, 1987 ISBN 978-3-5962-2255-1
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