by Juan García Hortelano · VISOR LIBROS, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475223339
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«La incomprensión del comercio» is the poetry collection by Juan García Hortelano, published by Visor Libros in paperback (66 pages, in Spanish).
Hortelano's lyric distorts reality with a caricatural and esperpento-like slant, combined with a powerful erotic vein and an underlying tenderness. Love and heartbreak coexist with a historical and political consciousness that becomes a belligerent ethic, while death hovers over the whole. Concise, intense and malicious poetry, bordering on rawness.
Number 333 of the Visor de Poesía collection. Edited by Antonio Martínez Sarrión. Originally published in 1995.
For a general audience interested in 20th-century Spanish poetry and Hortelano's lyrical work.
Juan García Hortelano was a Spanish writer. He was born in Madrid. His father was a doctor. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, he was sent with his siblings to Cuenca, only returning to Madrid in 1937 where he lived with his maternal grandparents. The libraries at school and home turned him into an avid reader. Following the war, he entered college in 1941, later studying law at Madrid University. He joined the Civil Service in 1953. Throughout his life, he dedicated himself to writing with fervour and discipline without abandoning his administrative job in Madrid. He cultivated friendships with writers and intellectuals of his generation: Juan Benet, Carlos Barral, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Juan Marsé and Ángel González.
