by Luis Cernuda · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437604800
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Las Nubes and Desolación de la Quimera are two seminal works by the poet Luis Cernuda, belonging to his mature period. In Las Nubes, Cernuda addresses themes such as war and exile, showing a Spain that has become a stepmother to her children, from which emerges an idealized and longed-for vision. Desolación de la Quimera, his last book, is a review of his past and a reckoning of his being. This edition includes an introduction and notes by Luis Antonio de Villena, offering a deep analysis of Cernuda's work.
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.
