Carlos Rojas Vila
Author of The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell
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Carlos Rojas Vila nació en Barcelona en 1928. En 1951 se licenció en Filosofía y Letras por la Universidad de Barcelona y en 1955 se doctoró en la misma materia por la de Madrid. Fue lector de español en la Universidad de Glasgow (Escocia). En 1957 se trasladó a Estados Unidos como profesor ayudante de español en el Rollins Collage de Winter Park (Florida). Posteriormente, fue profesor agregado de lenguas Románicas y más tarde Catedrático de Literatura Española Contemporánea en la Universidad de Emory en Atlanta.
Su primera novela, De barro y esperanza, se publicó en 1957. Un año después aparecía El futuro ha comenzado y El asesino de César, premio Ciudad de Barcelona 1958. Ganó el Premio Nacional de Literatura en 1968 con Auto de Fe. En 1973 obtenía el premio Planeta con Azaña,y cuatro años más tarde, el Ateneo de Sevilla con Memorias inéditas de José Antonio Primo de Rivera. El Premio Nadal lo conquistaría en 1979 con El ingenioso hidalgo y poeta Federico García Lorca asciende a los infiernos, y ganaría el Espejo de España con El mundo mítico y mágico de Picasso en 1984.
Algunas de sus últimas obras son: El jardín de las Hespérides (novela, 1988), Yo, Goya (ensayo, 1990), Proceso a Godoy (novela histórica, 1992), Alfonso de Borbón habla con el demonio (novela, 1995) y ¡Muera la inteligencia! ¡Viva la muerte! (ensayo, 1995).
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No es un libro más sobre nuestra guerra civil. Es, ante todo, un extraordinario retrato del que fue presidente de la República española; retrato que, enmarcado en un contexto histórico documentado con minucia y rigor, trasciende el estricto valor biográfico para erigirse en creación literaria de primera magnitud. El autor penetra con libertad e imaginación en la historia y , sin vulnerarla, desvela matices y claroscuros que la simple crónica omitiría; llega así, por caminos de show more tensión poética, al nudo existencial de su personaje. Don Manuel Azaña, ya exiliado en Francia y en los últimos meses de su vida, rememora episodios de su acción política desde el drama de Casas Viejas hasta la retirada por lo Pirineos; evoca recuerdos de infancia y juventud, paisajes irremediablemente perdidos, reflexiones filosóficas, afanes literarios, amarguras del exilio; revive sus destempladas discusiones con figuras políticas como Abad de Santillán, Prieto, Companys, Bosch Gimpera, Rojo, Hidalgo de Cisneros, y sobre todo, Negrín; el tenso duelo dialéctico que libran Azaña y Negrín descubre el hondo conflicto íntimo de aquel intelectual escéptico, espectador lúcido y torturado a la vez que protagonista directo del desastre de la República. show less
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The Valley of the Fallen (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Carlos Rojas (translated by Edith Grossman) is a historical novel taking in different time periods in Spain. Mr. Rojas is an award-winning novelist and art historian.
Artist Francisco de Goya is at the most successful time of his career. He is the painter, and sounding board, of King Fernando VI who is dedicated to establish a cruel regime after show more Spain’s War of Independence.
The Valley of the Fallen (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Carlos Rojas (translated by Edith Grossman) is a very dense book, written in a postmodernist narrative which shifts between the court of King Charles IV of Spain (around the late 1700s) and the last days of Francisco Franco’s reign (mid 1970s).
The narrative merges fact and fiction, to tell two stories that even though are worlds apart, are still connected through a common language, ideology, politics, and art.
This is a dense read, I am not as familiar with Goya’s paintings Mr. Rojas is, so my reading was slowed down by looking them up on the Internet whenever they were mentioned. On the bright side, I could look up Goya’s paintings on the Internet at any time I wanted to.
We live in a wonderful age.
There is a helpful timeline at the end of the book, which I actually skimmed after I read a few chapters just to help me understand the narrative. My only complaint is about myself for not being able to read it in the original Spanish.
As usual, Ms. Grossman did a fantastic job with the translation, the prose is stylish, energetic and somewhat intimate. show less
The Valley of the Fallen (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Carlos Rojas (translated by Edith Grossman) is a historical novel taking in different time periods in Spain. Mr. Rojas is an award-winning novelist and art historian.
Artist Francisco de Goya is at the most successful time of his career. He is the painter, and sounding board, of King Fernando VI who is dedicated to establish a cruel regime after show more Spain’s War of Independence.
The Valley of the Fallen (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Carlos Rojas (translated by Edith Grossman) is a very dense book, written in a postmodernist narrative which shifts between the court of King Charles IV of Spain (around the late 1700s) and the last days of Francisco Franco’s reign (mid 1970s).
The narrative merges fact and fiction, to tell two stories that even though are worlds apart, are still connected through a common language, ideology, politics, and art.
This is a dense read, I am not as familiar with Goya’s paintings Mr. Rojas is, so my reading was slowed down by looking them up on the Internet whenever they were mentioned. On the bright side, I could look up Goya’s paintings on the Internet at any time I wanted to.
We live in a wonderful age.
There is a helpful timeline at the end of the book, which I actually skimmed after I read a few chapters just to help me understand the narrative. My only complaint is about myself for not being able to read it in the original Spanish.
As usual, Ms. Grossman did a fantastic job with the translation, the prose is stylish, energetic and somewhat intimate. show less
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