by Luis Cernuda · Diario El País · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669789
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«Ocnos» is Luis Cernuda's prose poetry collection, published by Diario El País in 2003 in hardcover (155 pages, in Spanish).
In these prose poems, Luis Cernuda reconstructs the Seville of his childhood through memory: light, courtyards and everyday scenes become a starting point for reflections on desire, solitude and the passage of time. Behind the memories looms the wound of exile and the pain of a shattered Spain, in an intimate, melancholic tone.
The work was originally published in 1942; this edition is from 2003.
For readers interested in twentieth-century Spanish poetry and in the figure of Luis Cernuda.
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.
