by Rafael Alberti · RBA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447309191
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«La arboleda perdida» is the autobiography of the poet Rafael Alberti, published by RBA in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
Rafael Alberti recalls his childhood and youth in El Puerto de Santa María, his discovery of poetry, and the political commitment that led him to become involved in the Civil War, in a narrative that runs from his early years to 1937 and portrays the Spain that the conflict was about to transform.
This paperback edition corresponds to number 47 of RBA's Narrativa actual collection (1995).
For readers of Spanish literature and for those seeking a personal testimony about Spain during the Civil War.
Rafael Alberti Merello was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. He is considered one of the greatest literary figures of the so-called Silver Age of Spanish Literature, and he won numerous prizes and awards. He died aged 96. After the Spanish Civil War, he went into exile because of his Marxist beliefs. On his return to Spain after the death of Franco, Alberti was named Hijo Predilecto de Andalucía in 1983, and Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad de Cádiz in 1985.
