Augusto D'Almar ( Spanish: Augusto d'Halmar , real name is Thomson ; April 23, 1882 , Chile - January 27, 1950 , Santiago , Chile ) - Chilean writer , poet , playwright , essayist , journalist . The representative of naturalism in the literature. One of the first intellectuals in the country to acknowledge their homosexuality .
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Laureate of the Atenea Literary Prize (1934) and the 1942 Chilean National Literature Award .
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Biography
The son of a French sailor and Chilean. Father left his mother before his birth. At the age of 10, he remained an orphan. In 1899, without graduating from the Lyceum, he engaged in literary work. Baron D'Almar signed it with a pseudonym, after the name of his great-grandfather - a Swede by birth.
Since 1900 he worked as an editor in the magazine Luz y Sombra , collaborated with various other magazines. During this period, he created a series of critical biographical essays on 21 writers, including: Hans Christian Andersen , Victor Hugo , Leo Tolstoy , Henrik Ibsen , Edgar Allan Poe , Charles Dickens , Francis Bret Hart , Emil Zola , Alfons Dode , Guy de Maupassant , Oscar Wilde , Eka de Keyrosh , Pierre Loti , Rudyard Kipling , Maxim Gorky , Oscar Milos , Federico Garcia Lorca , Antonio Machado , Joseph Conrad and others.
In 1904, together with friends, he founded a colony of Tolstoyans .
He worked as secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federico Bourne, who was later appointed Consul General of Chile in Hindustan , then to Peru . In 1907-1934 he lived in India, Peru, France, Spain and other countries.
During World War I, he was a war correspondent for the daily newspaper La Nacion ( Buenos Aires ) and La Unión ( Santiago ) in Paris , was wounded and was in critical condition for several months. He was awarded the French government.
In 1917 he moved to Buenos Aires , after the war in 1919 - he settled in Spain, where he remained until 1934, worked as a translator, journalist and teacher.
Died of throat cancer.
Creativity
The author of the first naturalist novel in Chilean literature on the vices of a capitalist city - Juan Lucero (1902). Prose D'Almar, who has adopted the techniques of modernism , is characterized by symbolism , a tendency to exotic . Separate works of the writer are written in the spirit of proletarian realism .
He owns numerous stories and essays (the collection Christian and Me (1946) and others), the novel The Shadow of Smoke in the Mirror (1924), and the collection of travel essays Nirvana (1920). The novel “Passion and Death of the Priest Deusto” (1924) is marked by mystical moods and is considered the first novel in Spanish, which raised the problems of homosexuality and is considered one of the landmarks of gay literature in Spain.
D'Almar is considered one of the initiators of the emergence of a literary movement called Chilean imagism , as an alternative to the creolism of most writers of that time.
Bibliography
- Juana Lucero , (novel, 1902)
- Vía crucis , (1906)
- Al caer la tarde , (play, 1907)
- La lámpara en el molino , (novel, 1914).
- Los Alucinados , (Roman, 1917).
- La Gatita , (1917).
- La sombra del humo en el espejo , (novel, 1918).
- Nirvana , (poetry, 1918)
- Mi otro yo , (poetry, 1920).
- Cuatro evangélicos en uno , (1922).
- Vía Crucis , (1923).
- Pasión y muerte del cura Deusto (1924)
- La Mancha de Don Quijote (1934)
- Capitanes sin barco, tres novelas , (poetry, 1934).
- Catita y otras narraciones, cuentos (1935).
- Amor, cara y cruz, novela y cuentos (1935).
- Lo que no se ha dicho sobre la actual revolución española , (1936).
- Rubén Darío y los americanos en París (1941).
- Palabras para canciones , (poetry, 1942).
- Mar, novela poemática , (1945).
- Carlos V en Yuste y Castilla (1945).
- Cristián y yo, cuentos (1946).
- Los 21 , (essay, 1948)
- Cursos de oratoria , (1949).
- Recuerdos olvidados , (posthumous) (1975).
Literature
- Alegria F. Horizons of Realism. - M. , 1974.
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 136004342 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- Artz Swartz A. Open Library - 2005.
- ↑ Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes - 1999.
Links
- Augusto D'Halmar (Spanish)