Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre and Merlo was born on April 26, 1898, in Seville, Spain, and was a renowned writer who was part of the so-called “generation of 27“.
This renowned character in Spanish literature grew up in a bourgeois family. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Malaga, where he spent most of his childhood until, at the end of high school, he moved to Madrid to study Law and Commerce.
In 1919, after obtaining the title of Commercial Intendant, began teaching classes as a professor of commercial law at the Commerce School.
In 1925, his health was affected by tuberculous nephritis, which is why one of his kidneys had to be removed.
In 1926, he published his first poems in a Madrid magazine called “Western Magazine“It was at that moment that he began to have contact with other writers, such as Cernuda, Altolaguirre, Alberti Y Garcia Lorca.
Despite the fact that he hid his homosexual tendency throughout his life, it is known that he had a love relationship with Andres Acero, which should have been interrupted by the forced exile of Andrew, after the Spanish Civil War broke out. Molina Foix, commented: “Aleixandre was very modest about his homosexual condition because of the damage it could do to his family, especially his sister, but he told me that when he died he did not care if the truth was known; I considered that it was no disgrace“.
In the year 1928, Aleixandre published his first book of the call “Pure poetry“. Said work took the name of”.Ambit“, and in her the use of the short verse and the color of the classic Spanish poetry of the Golden age.
Years later, he began to work on his new project, in which he would seek to compose his first poems in the field of super-realistic poetry. It was so he wrote “Passion of the Earth“(1935),”Swords like lips“(1932),”Destruction or love“(1935), for which he won the National Literature Prize in that same year, and “Shadow of Paradise“(1944). This time, he emphasized the irrationalist poem, looking for automatic writing.
In these renowned books of poetry, the Spanish writer introduces love as an ungovernable natural force, capable of eliminating the various limitations of the human being.
After the bloody Civil War, Vicente Aleixandre leaned over the side of the call “Anthropocentric poetry“, in which the writer’s concerns are based on the social. In this period, he acquires a position of solidarity, and narrates the sufferings and dreams of the common man.
His most successful books from this stage were, without a doubt, “Heart story“(1954) and”In a vast domain“(1962), for which he received the Critics Award.
Once entered the third age, Aleixandre he wrote again with a very subtle and serene youthful irrationalism. In 1968, he published “Poems of the consummation“, and 6 years later”Knowledge dialogues“. After his death, a book was published that would correspond to this time, called”In great night“, which went on sale in 1991.
Although it was not his best known facet, Vicente Aleixandre He also contributed to books written in prose. Among the best known are: “Love and poetry“(1950),”Some characters of the new Spanish poetry“(1955) and”The meetings“(1958).
In 1949, he won the Francisco Franco Award, It was declared Academic in Session, and a year later, it was part of the Royal Spanish Academy occupying the chair corresponding to the letter O.
In 1977, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was delivered to him with these words: “for his great creative work, rooted in the tradition of Spanish lyric and modern poetic currents illuminating the condition of man in the cosmos, and the needs of the present time“.
On December 13, 1984, at 11:23 p.m. Spanish time, Vicente Aleixandre, left this world, although his work will endure in the hearts of all lovers of poetry.