by Miguel Hernandez · Losada/Argentina · tapa dura · ISBN 9788449411113
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«Cancionero y romancero de ausencias» is the poetry collection by Miguel Hernández, published by Losada/Argentina in hardcover (112 pages, in Spanish).
The poems in this songbook, composed between 1938 and 1941, were born during the Spanish Civil War and Miguel Hernández's imprisonment in the postwar period. The absence of his wife and son, the loss of loved ones and the desolation of the conflict turn personal experience into collective testimony.
This 1998 edition is part of the Clásicos Universales collection published by Losada/Argentina.
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.
