Elena Garro

Elena Garro

(1920-1998)

"I was in Spain a few days ago to attend a conference

antifascist intellectuals. I was not intellectual, nor was anti anything.

University Theatre was the choreographer and I was licensing

Lyrics. My idols were the Russian ballet dancers

Monte Carlo, but I had married a few days before a poet

Guest: Octavio Paz, who was part of the delegation

Mexican composed and Jose Carlos Pellicer Mancisidor. The

delegation which grew and became self-invited

Spain to give me the can accuse me of "petty bourgeois ...".

Elena Garro.

THE VOICE OF REALISM M PRECURSOR? GICO Elena Garro, the most important writer of the twentieth century Mexican travel to Spain, accompanied her husband to attend Octavio Paz in July 1937 the Second Congress Writers convened by the International Alliance of Antifascist Intellectuals. In his memories of that trip has left us a brief and curious portrait of the poet Luis Cernuda: "In Valencia too, when I escaped to the beach every day was an Englishman lying on a white towel with a blue swimsuit. No one bathed, only he and I alone. The bars were closed and desolate shore. It was he who spoke to me was me, "Are you English ?"... "No. I'm Spanish." "Well, you have a nice color than mine," I said. "It makes more time I come to the beach," he replied. "I almost I can not come. I am married to a poet and that people do not like the sport ...", I said. The young blonde blushed even more: "I'm a poet Luis Cernuda call me," he said ... "And Altolaguirre Manuel also left us saying," The intellectuals went busy with Congress and "the papers". I, with fear, Manolo Altolaguirre, cinnamon eyes clear and boyish smile, he assured me, "Elena, do not worry, me too I have so much fear.

Look, I was writing a shell, to come back with popcorn and just at the moment in which he wrote: "shell can come back, I'm looking at the cradle of popcorn and nothing happens", there was an explosion, the birthplace and disappeared quarter and I was attached to a shirt. Of course shells and popcorn were in London ...! And Manolo looked at the sky. He said much the mystery of the poet's marriage with fierce angelic Altolaguirre swimming champion Concha Méndez ... "

Some episodes of the Cristero War (1926-1929) were shaped in the best known of his novels Memories of the Future (1963), Xavier Villaurrutia prize, shared with Fair Juan Jose Arreola. One of the latest novels from Spanish exile in Mexico Pastor Virgil bottle, maybe tomorrow, was announced earlier as "Memories of the future" label that was changed to appear Elena Garro's novel of the same title. Elena Garro by memories of the future work, is considered the precursor of magic realism.

The writer, choreographer and journalist Elena Garro Navarro was born in Puebla on December 11, 1920 and died in Cuernavaca on August 23, 1998, overcome by lung cancer, caused by snuff, of which he was addicted at a young age. Spanish father and Mexican mother, lives a happy childhood in Mexico City. Because of the Cristero War, remains some time with his family in Iguala. In Mexico City, studied choreography and literature at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, where he met Octavio Paz, whom he married in 1937, shortly before their trip to Spain to attend the Second Congress of Writers. With Paz lived a turbulent marriage that ended in 1959. The handling of a statement on the occasion of the slaughter of Tlatelolco in which some Mexican intellectuals accused of inciting students to pay no later any help, he was forced into exile in the United States first and then settle in France for twenty years. On his return to Mexico, lives humbly in Cuernavaca, with his daughter Helena and surrounded by numerous cats.

His career as a narrator begins the novel Memories of the Future (1963) and story collection La semana de colores (1964), books that show as a precursor to the current narrative framed within the Spanish American magical realism. Later, his work takes on a tone of protest and feminist, focusing primarily on the issue of power: We are on the run, Lola (1980), The House by the River (1983) and Looking for my obituary & First Love (1996, Sor Juana Ines de Award the Cross). It is also the author of several plays, among which are: Moving (1959), The lady in the balcony (1960), Philip? Angeles (1978). In 1992 he published Memoirs of Spain Garro, 1937. Finally, remember again his stay of the great Mexican writer in Spain, "Congress left for Paris and we returned to Valencia, where we meet Miguel Hernandez who I loved very much. I will never forget as melons started with a sling blade that pulled from the pocket of his corduroy pants ... not forget the pictures of Josefina, who showed me with pride. "



Francisco Arias Solis

Peace and Freedom.

Of Internet Portal for Peace and Freedom and Free Forum.

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