by Luis Cernuda · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432230615
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«Ocnos» is Luis Cernuda's collection of poetic prose, published by Seix Barral in paperback (196 pages, in Spanish).
Ocnos is a central book in Luis Cernuda's output: a succession of snapshots or glimpses of time gone by, written from the prose poem, which builds a poetic autobiography. The prose of Ocnos, dense and sensory as well as precise, turns experience and its ghosts into an object of reflection and recapitulation.
The critical edition, with introduction and notes, is by D. Musacchio. This edition belongs to Seix Barral's Biblioteca de Bolsillo collection. Ocnos was originally published in 1942.
This edition is of interest to poetry readers and scholars of Luis Cernuda's work.
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.
