by Luis Cernuda · Grupo Anaya Publicaciones Generales · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420643823
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«La realidad y el deseo (1924-1962)» is the poetic work of Luis Cernuda, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (432 pages, in Spanish).
A poetry collection bringing together Luis Cernuda's lyric work between 1924 and 1962, conceived as a growing book and expanded since the 1936 edition with unpublished poems and separately published works. Includes 'Historial de un libro', where Cernuda narrates the experiences that marked his poetry. Octavio Paz read the whole as a journey from adolescence to maturity.
Belongs to the Alianza Literaria (AL) collection. This edition was published on 17 March 2000 and the work originally appeared in 1936.
For readers of European poetry and modern Spanish literature, and for those who want to approach Luis Cernuda.
Luis Cernuda Bidón was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. During the Spanish Civil War, in early 1938, he went to the UK to deliver some lectures and this became the start of an exile that lasted till the end of his life. He taught in the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge before moving in 1947 to the US. In the 1950s he moved to Mexico. While he continued to write poetry, he also published wide-ranging books of critical essays, covering French, English and German as well as Spanish literature. He was frank about his homosexuality at a time when this was problematic and became something of a role model for this in Spain. His collected poems were published under the title La realidad y el deseo.
