Abraham Valdelomar
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| Image:Avpdp.jpg Abraham Valdelomar |
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| Born: | 1888-04-15 Pisco, Peru |
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| Died: | 1919-11-02 Ayacucho, Peru |
| Occupation: | author, academic, philologist, Writer |
| Genres: | Novel |
Abraham Valdelomar Pinto (* Pisco, Ica, April 15, 1888 - † Ayacucho, November 2, 1919) was a Peruvian narrator, poet, journalist, essayist and dramatist considered one of the greatest poets of Peru next to Julio Ramón Ribeyro.
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[edit] Biography
He grew up in the port city of Pisco. The experiences of his childhood, and his time on both the land and the sea, strongly influenced his work. It studied the secondary one in Guadalupe School of Lima, and in 1905 he entered the faculty of Letters of National University of San Marcos. Nevertheless, it let the classes the following year to work like sketcher of magazines like Aplausos y silbidos, Monos y Monadas, Actualidades, Cinema y Gil Blas. His first verses, of modernist style, published them in the magazine Contemporáneos; his first stories, the following year, appeared in Variedades and Ilustración Peruana.
His early work is marked by the influence of the modernist Manuel González Prada: poems, journalistic chronicles and stories, as well as two outstanding short novels: La ciudad de los tísicos (1911) y La ciudad muerta (1911), in that the devotion of the author is clear by Gabriele D'Annunzio.
In 1912 he participated in the presidential campaign of Guillermo Billinghurst. The triumph of this candidate provided the direction to him of the newspaper El Peruano in 1912 and, the following year, a position like diplomat of its country in Rome, city in which wrote its more important work, El Caballero Carmelo.
To his return to Peru, after the overthrow of Billinghurst, in 1914, Jose of Riva-Agüero worked like personal secretary of the Peruvian polígrafo, under whose influence he wrote La mariscala, storied biography of Francisca Zubiaga (1803-1835), wife of the president Agustín Gamarra and outstanding figure of the policy of the Peru of the time.
He returned to exert mainly like journalist, collaborating in the newspaper La Prensa., where it used the pseudonym "El Conde de Lemos" in order to sign his sections "Crónicas frágiles" and "Diálogos máximos". He founded the ephemeral but influential magazine Colónida and he headed the intellectual movement of the same name (Colónida movement), of esteticista cut. That same year published Las voces múltiples, book in that his met to poems and of other authors of the movement. In him the most well-known poems take shelter of Valdelomar, "Tristia" and "El hermano ausente en la cena de Pascua..."
Chosen representing the Regional Congress of the Center, in a meeting of this Congress in the city of Ayacucho, he underwent a fall that produced a fracture of the spine and several traumatisms to him, that caused the death to him.
His better fiction is in two story collections: El caballero Carmelo (1918) and Los hijos del sol (1921), that two of the first testimonies of the Peruvian criollista story are considered. In the story "El caballero Carmelo", that gives name to the first book, is used an archaic vocabulary and an own rhetoric of novels of cavalries to narrate the sad history of a rooster of fights loved by the children of the house. In Los hijos del sol, he looks for its inspiration in the past historical of Peru, the time of incas.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novel
- 1911 - La ciudad de los tísicos
- 1911 - La ciudad muerta
- Yerba santa
[edit] Story
- 1918 - El Caballero Carmelo
- 1921 - Los hijos del sol
- ???? - El vuelo de los condores
- ???? - El caballero carmelo
[edit] Poem
- 1916 - Las voces múltiples
[edit] Theater
- 1914 -"El vuelo" (Drama inspired by the flight of Carlos pioneering Tenaud of Peruvian aviation)
- 1916 - Verdolaga (Tragedy of single that fragments are conserved)
- Palabras (modernist and allegorical Tragedy in 1 act)
[edit] Essay
- 1910 - Con la argelina al viento (crónicas)
- 1917 - Ensayo sobre la psicología del gallinazo
- ???? - Con la argelina al viento
- 1918 - Belmonte, El Trágico. Ensayo de una estética futura a través del arte nuevo
[edit] Biography
- 1915 - La mariscala
