Xavier Villaurrutia

Xavier Villaurrutia ( born March 27, 1903 in Mexico City; † December 25, 1950 ) was a Mexican writer, poet and playwright. He belonged to the group of poets Contemporáneos.

Life

Xavier Villaurrutia was born in Mexico City on March 27, 1903 in a middle-class family that used a special inclination towards French culture, a preference that shaped his upbringing, his literary interests and his own work. Villaurrutia belonged to the group of poets " Contemporáneos ". 1936 Villaurrutia writes the screenplay for the film Vámonos con Pancho Villa by Fernando de Fuentes, who was one of the most successful films of the Latin American film history. The Argentine publishing Sur published in 1938 the first edition of Nostalgia de la muerte, the poems are collected in the for the most part he had written in the last 10 years. Around 1940 Villaurrutia writes the foreword to several translations of the works of Paul Valéry, Rainer Maria Rilke and Paul Morand.

On December 25, 1950 Villaurrutia dies of a heart attack. A few days later we talk about suicide. The facts are still unknown.

Octavio Paz realized that Villaurrutia already a keen sense of the rhythm of the language was in his early poems, as well as his talent for creating images that reveal fine fragile relations between the sensations of the eye and the ear. The interest that will be placed on such works today, so nourished by curiosity about the beginnings of a future champion. So the search for unusual images and metaphors is already evident in the early works.

Poetic work

Villaurrutias most important works are

  • Reflejos (1926 ),
  • Nocturnes (1933 ),
  • Nostalgia de la muerte (1938 ),
  • Décima muerte (1941 ) and
  • Canto a la primavera y otros poemas (1948 ).

The entire poetic work is in the tape longing for death - Nostalgia de la muerte, translated by Curt Meyer- Clason, edited by Alberto Pérez- Amador Adam, Aachen 2007 collected bilingual. ISBN 978-3-89086-651-2

Dramatic work

The dramatic works are, inter alia,

  • Cars profanos (1943 ),
  • Invitación a la muerte (1944 ),
  • La mulata de Córdoba (1948) and
  • Tragedia de las equivocaciones ( 1951).

Literature Prize

1955, the Premio Xavier de Villaurrutia escritores para escritores is created.

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