by Luis Cernuda · LIBRERIA Y EDITORIAL RENACIMIENTO S.A · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788418387753
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This facsimile edition of 'La realidad y el deseo' reproduces the 1936 edition from the workshops of Manuel Altolaguirre for Ediciones del Árbol, respecting the original typography. Luis Cernuda's work is a constant search for unity between the individual and the world, exploring alienation and the desire for personal refuge. Through his verses, Cernuda reflects on self-affirmation and hope, merging reality and desire in an aspiration to return to an original state. This book is a search for personal truth, marking a milestone in Cernuda's poetry, whose reputation was consolidated despite the adversities of the Civil War and exile.
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.
