Oliverio Girondo
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[edit] Definition
Oliverio Girondo (1891-1967) was an argentine poet. Born in Buenos Aires, he participated in the magazines (Proa, Prisma and Martín Fierro) that signaled the arrival of ultraism, which was the first of the vanguardist movements to settle in Argentina.
He was contemporary to Jorge Luis Borges, Raul González Tuñón and Macedonio Fernández. Girondo was one of the most enthusiastic animators of the ultraist movement, exerting influence over poets of the next generation.
[edit] Works
- "Twenty poems to be read in the trolley" (1922)
- "Calcomanías" (1925)
- "Scarecrows"(1932)
- "Interlunium" (1937)
- "Persuasion of the days" (1942)
- "Fields of our own" (1946)
- "In the masmédula" (1957)
In the masmédula is a desperate attempt at absolute expression.Enrique Molina pointed out that the very structure of language suffers the clash of the poetic energy triggered by this book. It carries it to the point of making words resign to their normal separation to fuse in groups, in other complex units. The words are thus transformed to achieve multiple and polivalent meanings, proceeding not only from their semantic sense but also from their phonetic associations.
Some other critics parallelled this last vanguardist gesture from Girondo with César Vallejo´s "Trilce", which was a book equally defying the common definitions of meaning, both intending to construct and deconstruct in.
[edit] Trivia
Girondo´s works are the backbone of "The Dark Side of the Heart", an independent film from 1992 directed Eliseo Subiela, in which a poet strives to find the love of her life, defying Death´s constant interventions.
