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Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (Spanish pronunciation:[biˈθentealejɣˈsandɾe]; 26 April 1898 – 14 December 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born inSeville.[1] Aleixandre received theNobel Prize for Literature in1977[2] "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars".[3] He was part of theGeneration of '27.
Aleixandre's early poetry, which he wrote mostly in free verse, is highlysurrealistic. It also praises the beauty of nature by using symbols that represent the earth and the sea. Many of Aleixandre's early poems are filled with sadness. They reflect his feeling that people have lost the passion and free spirit that he saw in nature. He was one of the greatest poets of Spanish literature alongside Cernuda and Lorca.[4] The melancholia of his poetry was also the melancholy of failed or ephemeral love affairs.[5]
Aleixandre's bisexuality was well known to his circle of friends, but he never admitted it publicly. He had a long-term love relationship with the poetCarlos Bousoño.[6]
His early collections of poetry includePassion of the Earth (1935) andDestruction or Love (1933). In 1944, he wroteShadow of Paradise, the poetry where he first began to concentrate on themes such as fellowship, friendliness, and spiritual unity. His later books of poetry includeHistory of the Heart (1954) andIn a Vast Dominion (1962).
Aleixandre studied law at theUniversity of Madrid. Selections of his work were translated into English inTwenty Poems of Vicente Aleixandre (1977) andA Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vincent Aleixandre (1979;Copper Canyon Press, 2007) translated byLewis Hyde.
During theCivil War Aleixandre was among the contributors ofEl Mono Azul, a Republican cultural magazine.[8]
In the following years, between 1928 and 1932, there is a radical change in Aleixandre's poetic conception. Inspired by the predecessors ofsurrealism (especiallyArthur Rimbaud andLautréamont) and byFreud, he adoptsprose poetry (Passion of the Earth, 1935),free verse, and plainly surreal methods such as free verse and the visionary image (Swords like Lips, 1932;Destruction or Love, 1935;Shadow of Paradise, 1944) as his form of expression. The aesthetics of these poems are irrational, and the expression comes close to "flow", even without accepting it as a dogma of faith. Along with surrealism, the poet does not take on any tradition, not even the metric, and frees himself.Luis Cernuda could say: "Your verse is like nothing else." And in effect his style brings unpublished stylistic novelties such as the invertedsimile (Swords like Lips) or the equivalent disjunctive nexus (Destruction or Love), thehyperbole adds, the uncoded dreamsymbol, enriching without question the stylistic possibilities of the Spanish poetic language, just asGarcilaso,Góngora andRubén Darío, each one a great renovator of lyric language, did in the past. The poet celebrates love as a natural, ungovernable force that breaks down all human limitations and criticizes the conventionalism with which society attempts to conquer it.
A sculptural monument to Aleixandre, designed by the Spanish artist Juan López Ballesteros, is installed in la plaza mayor in Madrid, Spain.[9][10]
The Spanish government has issued several postage stamps featuring portraits of Aleixandre, including a centenary series in 2001.[11]
Poesin blev min räddning (1977), documentary directed by Humberto López y Guerra about the Spanish Literature Nobel Prize Winner Vicente Aleixandre produced for Swedish Television TV1-Kultur
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