by Miguel Hernández · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437608532
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«Viento del pueblo» is the poetry collection by Miguel Hernández, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
Written during the Spanish Civil War, the poems in this book reflect Miguel Hernández's commitment to the Republican cause and his identification with the people in arms. With an epic and vivid tone, it sings of the sorrows and hopes of the fighters; for him, poetry is an instrument placed at the service of the people, and his verses are born from a history that is still being made.
Volume 308 of the Letras Hispánicas collection, edited by Juan Cano Ballesta. Sixth edition.
Recommended for readers of Spanish poetry and for those wishing to approach the literature of the Civil War.
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.
