by Luis Cernuda, Miguel J. Flys · Castalia Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470394027
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«La realidad y el deseo» is the poetic work of Luis Cernuda, published in 1982 by Castalia Ediciones in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
The poetry collection brings together Luis Cernuda's poetry as a spiritual biography: a succession of lived moments and reflection on those experiences, with a moral and universal character. The anecdotal and the sentimental are transformed into a personal myth, and poetry appears inseparably linked to the author's life.
The edition, edited by Miguel J. Flys, includes a biographical and critical introduction, a bibliographical note, and a select bibliography. It corresponds to volume 125 of the Clásicos Castalia collection.
Due to its critical apparatus, it is aimed at students of Spanish literature and readers of poetry in Spanish.
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.
