by Luis Cernuda · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420632551
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«La realidad y el deseo (1924-1962)» is the poetic collection by Luis Cernuda, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (430 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together Luis Cernuda's poetic work from his early books to the definitive 1962 edition, and includes «Historial de un libro (La realidad y el deseo)», a text in which the author reviews his career. The collection addresses love, desire, solitude and the experience of exile with a language that evolves from initial purity towards a more reflective and conversational meditation.
It belongs to the Alianza Tres collection, number 255.
Aimed at readers of twentieth-century Spanish poetry and those who wish to approach one of the essential voices of the Generation of '27.
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.
