? Angel Lazaro Machado

ANGELES L? Zaro MACHADO

(1900-1985)

"But you, you're still there,

Spanish firm, quiet

... .................................

There, keeping her mother,

will be when we return.

Lift up your face ...

In silence

shake hands. "

? Angel Lazaro.

THE VOICE OF RETURN "In silence / shake hands" are poems written during his exile, by the admirable poet Orense? Angel Lazaro, who closed his book Blood of Spain, which is a song of hope: hope in man that was-suffering-in Spain. ? Angel Lazarus spent part of his life going back and forth from Spain to Cuba was also a great journalist, columnist Grand major newspapers in Spain and Latin America reached also stage works great success in which harmonize beautiful and intensely pathetic inspiration and always intensely dramatic and melancholy accused Celtic background. He was one of the first poets of the Spanish exile of 1939 they discovered the land and the people of America.

? Angel Lazaro Machado was born in Orense in 1900 and died in Madrid on March 31, 1985. His father was a Spanish military and Cuban mother. His childhood was spent in Velle, a village near his hometown. When she was not yet fourteen years old he emigrated to Cuba, where he worked in a shirt, in a warehouse as a varnish and piano tuner, a talabertería, etc.. He returned to Galicia by serious illness, but returned to emigrate to Cuba. With eighteen years and worked in the drafting of El Comercio. He published his first poems in Galicia, Diario de la Marina, Eco de Galicia and Chic. After four years in Cuba back to Spain again. In Madrid he joined the writing of La Libertad and assisted in leading magazines of the time as Black and White, New World and The Sphere. He frequented the salons of the time she met and dealt with teachers of 98. He married a sister of Toledo writer Emiliano Ramirez. In the early years of the war provoked by the military rebellion of General Franco was sent by the Spanish Republic to Cuba on a cultural mission, launching a campaign for the Republic in the People newspaper.

Good speaker, gave several lectures at the University of Havana, the Spanish-Cuban Institution of Culture, Friends of the Spanish Republic and the Lyceum Society. In 1938 he directed the magazine Revista Franco Spain. He worked from the first issue, October 1939, in the magazine Our Spain, led by Alvaro de Albornoz, and was born in Havana in the press the poet Manuel Altolaguirre Malaga. Became a journalist in the journal Posters, who led the Spaniard Antonio Ortega, and assisted in Bohemia Social News Facets of Spanish and Veronica. His stay in Cuba as an exile lasted until 1958, with sporadic visits to Mexico, Puerto Rico, and in Buenos Aires, where the consecrated Spanish actress Margarita Xirgu represented some of his works. In Mexico helped Excelsior and El Nacional and also published several books. On his return to Spain collaborated with the newspaper people. In the last years of his life he was seen frequently in the building of the Press Association of Madrid and was a regular visitor to the doctor's office.

His first book of poems appeared in Cuba in 1920, the gray haven then publishes Confession (1927), and later appears the mill that grinds (1927), considered his best book of poetry, which is followed by Cuba's Romances and Other Poems (1937). As early as 1940 in his anthology of poetry, there is a new poem, like the one dedicated to Antonio Machado in his death. In the foreword to this anthology, Altolaguirre Manuel writes: "... his poetry has all the qualities of a luxurious branches of greenery in the skies to conquer the world of the future. His poetry is transcendent as any work that comes from a close condition human ... " In 1941, Manuel Altolaguirre is the editor of the new book, Blood of Spain. Elegy of a people. His next book Epistolary poetry and other poems not see the light until 1952. Complete his poetry during his stay in Havana with two books published in 1955, Spanish banks and two Galician Lonxa book, both inspired by Spanish subjects. Published in Spain in 1973 Tribute to Aurelio Arteta, book of poems in homage to the Basque painter.



In 1922, premiered at the Teatro Principal de la Comedia his play with the soul, of Jacinto Benavente said: "I think the most vigorous defense of Latin American theater." Among his most notable plays include the scenic Bow sun poem, drama of emigration, premiered on March 5, 1931, at the Teatro de Madrid Fontalba by Lola Membrives company, The Bonfire of the devil, released on 18 April 1931 at the Teatro Rosalia de Castro de La Coruña, in the company of Enrique Borrás, and the innkeeper's daughter, released in Santiago de Chile in 1932, playing the protagonist Pepita Serrador. His other plays are: The arc of the festival (1933) and married without her husband's (1936), and finally pointing to the earth Olive and sculptors who were represented by Margarita Xirgu in Buenos Aires in 1948.

Among his books of essays and biographical quote: Jacinto Benavente: Of his life and his work (1925), The Truth of the Spanish people (1939), Family Portrait (1945), Sketches and essays (1963), on Galdós, Unamuno, Ortega, Menendez Pelayo, Valle-Inclan, Azorin, Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Marañón ... and the biography Rosalia de Castro (1966), books written in a style simple and direct, revealing a fine prose stylist sensitivity. And, as the emigrant and exiled Galician, constantly coming and going: "Galicia, green and sad, mother, / I come from the sun, / I come from tropical field width /-quiet, heat, glare-, / and find you crying your rain / meek as a blessing. "



Francisco Arias Solis

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