Vicente Aleixandre

Una selecci n de los mejores versos de Vicente Aleixandre, el inolvidable premio Nobel de Literatura de la generaci n del 27. Quiero amor o la muerte, quiero morir del todo, quiero ser t , tu sangre, esa lava rugienteque regando encerrada bellos miembros extremossiente as los hermosos l mites de la vida. Vicente Aleixandre es uno de los poetas m s importantes de la literatura espa ola. Creador de grandiosas met foras, experiment con la tradici n de la l rica y el surrealismo, iluminando la condici n del hombre en el cosmos y en la sociedad del siglo XX. Esta antolog a ofrece un panorama amplio, variado y accesible del universo po tico del autor que mejor ha sabido escribir sobre la tensi n entre Eros y T natos, el amor y la muerte, en su preocupaci n por lograr pronunciar el deseo y retener la pasi n, ahondando en la palabra. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A selection of the best verses of Vicente Aleixandre, the unforgettable Generation of '27 Nobel Prize winner. I want love or death, I want to die completely, I want to be you, your blood, that raging lavawhich enclosed, irrigating beautiful extremities, feels thus the beautiful limits of life. Vicente Aleixandre is one of the most important poets in Spanish literature. A creator of grand metaphors who experimented with lyrical tradition and surrealism, he illuminated the human condition in the cosmos and twentieth-century society. This anthology is a broad, varied and accessible sampling of Aleixandre's poetic universe. No one has written more masterfully of the tension between entre Eros and Thanatos, love and death, delving deep into words to articulate desire and nurture passion.

I Spanien i mitt hjärta har Thomas Almqvist valt ut elva spanska favoritpoeter, varav flera aldrig tidigare har översatts till svenska. Antonio Machado, Federico García Lorca, Miguel Hernández, Rafael Alberti, Emilio Prados, Gabriel Celaya, Vicente Aleixandre, León Felipe, Blas de Otero, José Agustín Goytisolo och Carlos Bousoño. Många av poeterna i urvalet hörde till Generation 27, kallad La Generación de la República, »Republikens Generation«. Tre av dessa elva dog som martyrer under eller strax efter spanska inbördeskriget 1936-1939 – Lorca, Hernández och Machado, medan de andra fängslades eller tvingades i landsflykt. Kriget och döden är ofta närvarande i dessa dikter, men här finner läsaren också dikter om kärlek, om längtan till havet och naturen, om kamp och uppror.

Includes poems that are intense, mostly brief, elemental in their imagery (stone, ocean, wind, fire), and they address, in sometimes gnomic terms, the unknowable-mainly the paradoxes of memory: the simultaneous absence and presence of remembered love and the lover no longer living.

Begun in 1939, barely four months after the close of the Spanish Civil War, these poems by the Nobel Laureate poet Vicente Aleixandre were written during a period of hardship and despair. In spite of his surroundings Aleixandre created the splendor of the shadow of a lost paradise that consisted of memory, nostalgia, yearning and illusion. This is the first full English version. The original Spanish text is included.