by Miguel Hernández · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437604626
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«El hombre acecha; Cancionero y romancero de ausencias» is the poetic work by Miguel Hernández published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (256 pages).
It brings together Miguel Hernández's last two books, written between the war and prison. His poetry becomes more bare and direct as it deals with the death of his son, the horror of conflict and confinement, with a bitter look at the human condition and the absence of what is essential.
The volume belongs to the Letras Hispánicas collection, edited by Leopoldo de Luis and Jorge Urrutia, and includes nine unpublished songs.
For readers of twentieth-century Spanish poetry and for those studying the work of Miguel Hernández.
Miguel Hernández Gilabert was a 20th-century Spanish-language poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 and the Generation of '36 movements. Born and raised in a family of low resources, he was self-taught in what refers to literature, and struggled against an unfavourable environment to build up his intellectual education, such as a father who physically abused him for spending time with books instead of working, and who took him out of school as soon as he finished his primary education. At school, he became a friend of Ramón Sijé, a well-educated boy who lent and recommended books to Hernández, and whose death would inspire his most famous poem, Elegy.
