Cancinos Assens, Raphael

From a poor family, among his paternal relatives are Rita Hayworth (actually Margarita Carmen Kansino). Mother is a devout Catholic, and her father is a descendant of the Sephardic . From the age of 15 he lived in Madrid. Differs in phenomenal ability to languages. At the beginning of the XX century. He joined Spanish modernism, published in Madrid magazines, visited literary cafes, and entered the capital's bohemia . He was familiar with R. Dario , R. M. del Valle-Inclan , H. R. Jimenez , Antonio Machado , R. Gomez de la Serna and others. After 1914 he led the avant-garde searches of Spanish and Latin American writers, became one of the founders of ultraism . He published the Cervantes magazine, published in the avant-garde magazines Greece , Urn , etc. He met Max Nordau , Waldo Frank , corresponded with Pierre Reverdi , became friends with Vicente Widobro , Guillermo de Torre, Jorge Luis Borges , who since then considered him a literary man.

After the victory of Francoism, until the end of his life he was in internal exile, published in Latin America, and was subjected to persecution of censorship: he was forbidden to speak in the press, translations were published without indicating his name. After the death of the writer, the obituary appeared in only one Spanish publication - the Madrid newspaper ABC , seven people followed his coffin.

He made his debut as a poet in the book of psalms of the Semiconductor ( 1914 ). He was best known for experimental prose, essays and translations: he translated the works of Lucian , Julian the Apostate , the Qur'an , Tales of a Thousand and One Nights , medieval Persian poets, ancient and new Jewish literature ( Treasures of the Talmud , 1919, etc.), Russian writers ( Turgenev , Dostoevsky , Leo Tolstoy , Maxim Gorky , Leonid Andreev ), Goethe , Schiller , Balzac , Barbe d'Oreville , Spitteller , Pirandello , G. Deleddu , O. Wilde , Galsworthy , G. Wells , R. Tagore and many others.

In novels and essays, he paid great attention to the erotic topic, which for Spanish Catholic traditionalism looked scandalous, but eroticism was part of the arsenal of indispensable aesthetic means of modernism and the avant-garde.

After the death of Cancinos-Assens, his groundbreaking collage book, A Novel of a Writer , was published, including fragments of diaries and memoirs of many years, and a novel by Bohemia . Since 2005 , the National Archives of Spain has the Rafal Cancinos Assensa Archive Foundation. In 2006, the Ark publishing house began a systematic publication of the writer’s vast literary heritage.

Poetry

• El candelabro de los siete brazos (Psalmos) ( 1914 )

Novels

• La encantadora ( 1916 )
• El eterno milagro ( 1918 )
• La madona del carrusel ( 1920 )
• El movimiento VP ( 1920 )
• En la tierra florida ( 1920 )
• La huelga de los poetas ( 1921 )
• La señorita Perséfone ( 1923 )
• Las luminarias de Hanukah ( 1924 )
• La novela de un literato: hombres, ideas, efemérides, anécdotas ( 1982 , reprint 1996 , 2005 , 2007 )
• Bohemia: novela póstuma ( 2002 )

Essays

• Estética y erotismo de la pena de muerte; Estética y erotismo de la guerra ( 1916 )
• El divino fracaso ( 1918 )
• Poetas y prosistas del novecientos (España y América) ( 1918 )
• España y los judíos españoles ( 1920 )
• Salomé en la literatura ( 1920 )
• Ética y estética de los sexos ( 1921 )
• Los temas literarios y su interpretación ( 1924 )
• Los valores eróticos en las religiones: De Eros a Cristo ( 1925 )
• Los valores eróticos en las religiones: El amor en el Cantar de los Cantares ( 1930 )
• Evolución de los temas literarios (La copla andaluza .-- Toledo en la novela .-- Las novelas de la torería .-- El mito de don Juan) ( 1936 )
• Los judíos en la literatura española ( 1937 )
• Mahoma y el Korán ( 1954 )

Correspondence

• Correspondencia Rafael Cansinos Assens, Guillermo de Torre: 1916-1955. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2004

Consolidated Editions

• Obra crítica. 2 vol. Seville: Diputación de Sevilla, 1998

Royal Academy of Spain Award for Literary Criticism ( 1925 ).

• Borges JL Definición de Cansinos Assens. Buenos Aires: Martin Fierro, 1924
• Linares A. Fortuna y fracaso de Rafael Cansinos-Asséns. Sevilla: Gráficas del Sur, 1978
• Fuentes Florido F. Rafael Cansinos Assens novelista, poeta, crítico, ensayista y traductor. Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 1979
• Chiappini JO Borges y Cansinos-Asséns. Rosario: Zeus Editora, 1995
• Oteo Sans R. Cansinos-Assens: entre el modernismo y la vanguardia. Alicante: Editorial Aguaclara, 1996
• Estrella Cózar E. Cansinos Assens y su contexto crítico. Granada: Universidad de Granada; Diputación de Granada, 2005
• Borges H. L. To the definition of Kansinos-Assens // He is the Collected Works. T.I. St. Petersburg: Amphora, 2005, p. 57-60

• Kansinos Assens Foundation Website