La Mandrágora (Spanish forTheMandrake) was aChileanSurrealist group "officially founded" on 12 July 1938 byBraulio Arenas (1913-1988),Teófilo Cid andEnrique Gómez Correa.[1] The group had met inTalca and first started exchanging in 1932.[2] They published an eponymous review (of which 7 issues were edited at a small scale, the last issue being edited in October 1943)[1] and an anthology of poetry,El A, G, C de la Mandrágora, which included works by all founders except Teófilo Cid. Politically, the group supported thePopular Front.
Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948), who had formed theCreationist literary movement, had been one of the main intermediaries of Surrealist thought in Chile, through his yearly travels to Paris.[1]The poetGonzalo Rojas (1917-2011) was also for a short time member of the group, although he harshly disavowed it years laters.[3] Rojas had introduced the youngJorge Cáceres to Braulio Arenas in 1938.[1] Others collaborators to the movement included Cáceres,Fernando Onfray,Gustavo Osorio, Huidobro,Pablo de Rokha, the VenezuelanJuan Sánchez Peláez,[4] as well as the paintersEugenio Vidaurrázaga andMario Urzúa, the musiciansRenato Jara, Alejandro Gaete and Mario Medina, and the artistLudwig Zeller, among others.[1]
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