by Rubén Darío · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467040906
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«Prosas profanas y otros poemas» is Rubén Darío's poetry collection, published by Austral in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
A crucial work of Hispanic American modernism, published in 1896. Darío breaks with traditional poetic canons, influenced by the musicality of French Parnassian and Symbolist poetry, and creates a new aesthetic in poems about love, beauty, mythology and art. It culminates the renewal drive of Azul... and anticipates Cantos de vida y esperanza.
This 2014 edition belongs to the Austral Básicos collection. The Nicaraguan Rubén Darío (1867-1916) named Modernism the movement that renewed poetry in Spanish.
For readers of poetry in Spanish and students of Hispanic American literature who want to discover an essential work of Modernism.
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as modernismo (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th century. Darío had a great and lasting influence on 20th-century Spanish-language literature and journalism.
