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Enrique Gómez Correa (1915, inTalca – 1995, inSantiago de Chile) was aChileanpoet,lawyer anddiplomat.

He studied at the Lyceum for Boys atAbate Molina de Talca, his hometown, where he metBraulio Arenas andTeófilo Cid, with whom he founded the ChileansurrealistMandrágora group on 18 July 1938, at theUniversity of Chile.^[1]

His thesis to obtain his lawyer diploma was entitledSociology of Madness, published in 1942, which was also influenced by surrealism. It addressed the issue of mental illness and the approach of madness in society, while also articulating the judicial, social and poetic aspects of this condition.^{[citation needed]}

Gomez Correa went to Paris, where he lived from 1949 to 1951 with the main members of French surrealism. He established links withAndré Breton and especially with the paintersJacques Hérold andRené Magritte. In 1948, he wroteThe spectrum of René Magritte as a tribute to the Belgian painter.^{[citation needed]}

Gomez Correa was friends withVicente Huidobro andPablo de Rokha, who both declared the Chilean who would win the Nobel Prize for Literature.^{[citation needed]}

In addition to poetry, he wrote several essays, a drama inspired by a story byAchim von Arnim (Mandrake King of Gypsies, 1954) and translatedGuillaume Apollinaire'sAlcools (Ediciones Mandrake, Santiago, 1955).^{[citation needed]}

Gomez Correa, who was a member of the Radical Party, published his books in numbered editions and signed by himself. His diplomatic career began in 1963, when he was stationed inGeneva (1966-1967),Lebanon andSyria (1967-1971),Switzerland andYugoslavia. The military coup of September 1973 caught him inGuatemala, where he served as Counselor of the Embassy of Chile. The dictatorship of GeneralAugusto Pinochet ended his diplomatic career.^{[citation needed]}

He was married to Wally Bravo and they had four children: Enrique, Veronica, Xavier and Felipe.^{[citation needed]}

A cancer affected his spine. Prostrate, he read esoteric works and watched the leaves that covered the window of his bedroom, reflecting on his condition: "I, who have loved plants, and consider them extremely powerful, I'm now finishing my days as one." He died after 12 years in bed with paralyzed legs, on 27 July 1995, at his old house in Galvarino Gallardo street (inProvidencia, Chile), at age 79.^{[citation needed]} His final collection of poetry,Las cosas al perecer perdidas (Things Seemingly Lost), was published after his death in 1996.^[2]

• Enrique Gómez-Correa papers, 1920-1995.Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Accession No. 970015. Archive contains materials by and about poet, essayist and editor, Enrique Gómez-Correa, chiefly covering his activities during the 1940s, as well as his prominence in the South American surrealist movement. It contains correspondence, manuscripts, personal photographs, books, articles, clippings, artwork, and other material.

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