Luis Rosales
His beginnings in literary training are related to the environment of artists from the Gallo magazine (although he never published in it), whose members —Enrique Gómez Arboleya, Manuel López Banús, Joaquín Amigo and Federico García Lorca, among others—, will become his great friends.In the second number of said magazine, in April 1933, they collaborate the great intellectuals of the time such as Miguel de Unamuno, Benjamín Jarnés, Manuel Altolaguirre, María Zambrano, Luis Felipe Vivanco, Leopoldo Vivanco, Claudio de la Torre, Vicente Aleixandre, Antonio Marichalar, Jaime Torres Bodet and Rainer María Rilke; and Rosales himself publishes his first poems: Eclogue of sleep and Ode of anxiety.He also publishes his verses in Vértice and Caballo Verde para la Poesía, a magazine directed by Pablo Neruda in which poems by other writers such as Vicente Aleixandre or Miguel Hernández also appeared.In the capital of Spain he met the Panero (Juan and Leopoldo) and Luis Felipe Vivanco, companions of what will later be called Generation of 36 (or of the War), of which Dionisio Ridruejo is also a part, and whose common axes, In addition to his affinity and camaraderie, were his intimate Catholicism and his social conservatism.In 1937 he published in the newspaper Patria de Granada, the poem «The voice of the dead», probably one of the most important written during the civil war, it chose all the victims of both sides, in which any expression of triumphalism is excluded or exaltation.[3] He was an active member of the Privy Council of the Count of Barcelona, encouraging the left and right to join and support the restoration of the monarchy in Spain (first with the aforementioned, and later with Juan Carlos de Borbón).Abril (1935), published immediately before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, connects with the style of poetry of the previous generation due to its aesthetic search and the importance of images, although without avant-garde pretensions.La casa encendida is a book-poem –written in free verse without stanzas– where Rosales mixes lyricism and narration, existentialism and imagination, rationality and irrationality, starting a new personal poetics that incorporates resources from César Vallejo and Antonio Machado.Editorial Trotta has published his Complete Work in six volumes, and Félix Grande, who was a disciple and friend of Rosales, prepared the anthology Because death does not interrupt anything, with his selection and prologue, which appeared in the Biblioteca Sibila in 2010.
Like the methodical castaway who counts the waves that are missing before dying,
and counts them, and counts them again, to avoid mistakes, until the last one,
until the one that is the height of a child and kisses him and covers his forehead,
so I have lived with the vague prudence of a cardboard horse in the bathroom,
knowing that I have never been wrong about anything,
except in the things that I loved the most.
Spanish namesurnameThe Most ExcellentGranadaMadridGeneration of '36Real Academia EspañolaRamón Pérez de AyalaLuis GoytisoloHispanic Society of AmericaRoyal Spanish AcademyMiguel de Cervantes PrizeFederico García LorcaUniversity of GranadaGeneration of '27José BergamínMiguel HernándezSpanish Civil WarRamón Ruiz AlonsoFalangistPablo NerudaJuan Carlos de BorbónCercedillaCervantes PrizePuerta de Hierroseat CGabriel Álvarez de ToledoAndrés Fernández PachecoManuel de Lardizábal y UribeFrancisco Martínez de la RosaLuis González BravoAntonio de BenavidesCristino Martos y BalbíMiguel Colmeiro PenidoJosé María AsensioJuan Vázquez de MellaJorge GuillénAlejo CarpentierDámaso AlonsoJorge Luis BorgesGerardo DiegoJuan Carlos OnettiOctavio PazRafael AlbertiErnesto SabatoGonzalo Torrente BallesterAntonio Buero VallejoCarlos FuentesMaría ZambranoAugusto Roa BastosAdolfo Bioy CasaresFrancisco AyalaDulce María LoynazMiguel DelibesMario Vargas LlosaCamilo José CelaJosé García NietoGuillermo Cabrera InfanteJosé HierroJorge EdwardsFrancisco UmbralÁlvaro MutisJosé Jiménez LozanoGonzalo RojasRafael Sánchez FerlosioSergio PitolAntonio GamonedaJuan GelmanJuan MarséJosé Emilio PachecoAna María MatuteNicanor ParraJosé Manuel Caballero BonaldElena PoniatowskaJuan GoytisoloFernando del PasoEduardo MendozaSergio RamírezIda VitaleJoan MargaritFrancisco BrinesCristina Peri RossiRafael CadenasLuis Mateo DíezÁlvaro Pombo