Vicente Huidobro





Vicente Huidobro

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born
January 10, 1893 in Santiago, Chile

died
January 02, 1948

gender
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Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He was an exponent of the artistic movement called Creacionismo ("Creationism"), which held that a poet should bring life to the things he or she writes about, rather than just describe them.

Huidobro was born into a wealthy family in Santiago. After spending his first years in Europe, he enrolled in a Jesuit secondary school in Santiago where he was expelled for using a ring, which he claimed, was for marriage. He studied literature at the University of Chile and published "Ecos del alma" ( Soul's Echoes ) in 1911, a work with modernist tendencies. The following year he married, and started to edit the journal "Musa Joven" ( Young Muse ), where part of his...more


Average rating: 4.28 · 377 ratings · 28 reviews · 24 distinct works
Altazor
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Altazor - Temblor del Cielo
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The Selected Poetry
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Manifest/Manifestos
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Mio Cid Campeador
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1975
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Cagliostro
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1993
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Obra Poetica
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions
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Obras Completas de Vicente ...
4.6 of 5 stars 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1963
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Poesía y Poética, 1911-1948
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Arctic Poems
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More books by Vicente Huidobro…
“¿Podéis creerlo? La tumba tiene más poder que los ojos de la amada.”
Vicente Huidobro, Altazor

“El reloj del cementerio se adelanta un poco.”
Vicente Huidobro

“La poesía soy yo.”
Vicente Huidobro