by Luis Cernuda · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437617503
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This book brings together two collections of poems by Luis Cernuda: 'Un río, un amor' and 'Los placeres prohibidos'. In 'Un río, un amor', a feeling of disillusionment predominates in the face of an apparently disastrous erotic experience. In 'Los placeres prohibidos', the bitterness of amorous failure is transformed into a more elegiac attitude. The work explores the expression of the isolated individual, harassed by his emotions in a world hostile to his dreams and desires, in a reality that is glimpsed but proves inaccessible.
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.
