by Luis Cernuda · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788430640980
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Ocnos, followed by Variaciones sobre tema mexicano is a work by the Spanish poet Luis Cernuda, first published in 1942. It is a collection of prose poems that evoke memories and reflections of the author on his childhood in Seville and his experiences in exile. The work is characterized by its intimate and melancholic style, as well as its exploration of themes such as memory, desire and identity.
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.
