Friday, August 10, 2012

Jorge Carrera Andrade


Jorge Carrera Andrade (1903-1978) "I was born in the century of the death of the rose when the engine had already driven away the angels.? Jorge Carrera Andrade. The Voice of crystal clear "I have defended the lyric poetry as the one that has given liberty to man-Carrera Andrade said helping himself?. Poet deep and original conception of the exercise of verse. This poet of the twentieth century dominates relief in Ecuador. Cabrera Jorge Andrade was born in Quito on September 18, 1903. In his hometown he attended high school and studied law. He served for many years as a diplomat in countries of America, Europe and Asia, and from 1951 was Ecuador's permanent delegate to UNESCO. He was later appointed ambassador to Paris and Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1966. He is considered one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century Ecuadorian and one of the most significant Latin American poetry. Cabrera Jorge Andrade in Quito died November 7, 1978. His first book of poetry goes back to 1922 and was published under the title The pond ineffable. The poet is inspired by rural life, his love for his country, expressed through lyrical compositions that are present in the most varied experiences, the influences of all kinds experienced by the author, ranging from Romanticism to Symbolism and streams the avant-garde poetry.

But the book stands very formal perfection, the crystal clarity will feature all the work of Carrera Andrade. The book mentioned is an abundant production. Among his most important works of the world record in 1940 and published the second edition of Pedro Salinas wrote a foreword. Also worthy of mention land and sea bulletins (1930), foreword by Gabriela Mistral, who was a collaborator; manual time (1935), Biography for the use of birds and Poetry last published in 1968. Among his books of prose include: Faces and climates (1948), by country and books Travel (1961), The fabulous kingdom of Quito (1963), evergreen Land (1956), and the volcano and the Hummingbird (1970), autobiographical.

The poetry of Jorge Carrera Andrade is dominated by a constant longing for their land. A tireless traveler, he felt was becoming more insistent, in his long stays in Japan and Europe as a diplomat, the call of the Ecuadorian world, coinciding with a deepening sense of existence that received definitive guidance on the occasion of his stay in Asia as happened to Neruda and Octavio Paz happen. The origin of the most intense of Carrera Andrade's poetry can be traced to the impact that produced the World War II. It is time that the poet reveals all the possibilities of his art in a song in which it states, in clear speech, the concern for man before the wreck of things, before the chaos that seemed to precipitate the world. The euphoria that characterized life in the past Carrera Andrade's poetry gives way to a deep understanding, concern existential melancholy pervades a thousand years. With the passage of time is emphasized in the poetry of Jorge Carrera Andrade's appeal of the homeland. The poet himself has stated that the trees and birds of equinoctial America visited him in dreams, every night a hummingbird nest in your heart, and saw, to close my eyes, rivers, corn.

"Every time the wind of longing blow holes in my conscience, 'said the poet, Ecuador and around the imposing home country?. Carrera Andrade says exuberantly his own existence and that of things in the victory of light. By the light opens communication with creation: "I understand the language of the eternal?. In the light of the poet is "the key to earthly existence?, Sees" the world's music, the song of the universal family in planetary unity?. In Planetary Man (1959) the solidarity of Jorge Carrera Andrade extends to all men. This work becomes poetry of historical man, and all men are called upon to sign a covenant of peace: "On my heart sign peoples / a peace treaty to death?. Francisco Arias Solis The first condition for peace is the will to achieve it. Of Internet Portal for Peace and Freedom and Free Forum. URL: http://www.internautasporlapaz.org

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