Carlos Rojas (2) (1928–)
Author of The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell
For other authors named Carlos Rojas, see the disambiguation page.
Carlos Rojas (2) has been aliased into Carlos Rojas Vila.
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Works have been aliased into Carlos Rojas Vila.
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- Carlos Rojas Vila, escritor español, nacido en Barcelona en 1928 y licenciado en Filosofía y Letras en 1960. Hijo del médico colombiano Carlos Rojas Pinilla, a su vez hermano del General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, presidente de Colombia entre 1953 y 1957.
Licenciado en Filosofía y Letras por la Universidad de Barcelona (1951) se doctoró en Madrid (1955) con la tesis Concepto y visión de España en la obra e ideas de Richard Ford y fue lector de español en la Universidad de Glasgow (Escocia). En 1957 fue profesor ayudante de español en el Rollins College de Winter Park (Florida) y fue profesor y luego catedrático de literatura española en la Universidad de Emory en Atlanta, Estados Unidos. Entre sus ensayos destacan, Diálogos para otra España (1966), Por qué perdimos la guerra (1969), Diez figuras de la Guerra civil española (1973) y La guerra civil vista por los exiliados (1975).
Como novelista figura entre los autores opuestos al realismo social y a quienes se ha agrupado con el rótulo de Escuela metafísica (Manuel García-Viñó, Andrés Bosch, Antonio Prieto etcétera). Cultiva preferentemente temas históricos y fantásticos o ambos enfoques a un tiempo. Destacan los títulos De barro y esperanza (1957), El futuro ha comenzado (1958), Adolfo Hitler está en mi casa (1965), Auto de Fe (1968), impresionante novela histórica que reconstruye la España de Carlos II por la que recibió el Premio Nacional de Literatura en 1968, Aquelarre (1970), Azaña, una biografía sobre el presidente de la República Manuel Azaña con la que ganó el premio Planeta en 1973. En 1979 ganó el premio Nadal con El ingenioso hidalgo y poeta Federico García Lorca asciende a los infiernos. Con Memorias inéditas de José Antonio ganó el premio Ateneo de Sevilla. En la década de los noventa destacan sus novelas El jardín de Atocha (1990) y Proceso a Godoy (1992). - Nationality
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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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