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Vicente Huidobro

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born

January 10, 1893 in Santiago, Chile

died

January 02, 1948

gender

male

genre

Poetry

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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

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Books by Vicente Huidobro

Average rating: 4.28 · 377 ratings · 28 reviews · 24 distinct works

	Altazor by Vicente Huidobro, Eliot Weinberger (Translator) 4.30 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1931 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Altazor - Temblor del Cielo 4.36 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Selected Poetry by Vicente Huidobro, David M. Guss (Editor), Stephen Fredman (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Manifest/Manifestos by Vicente Huidobro, Gilbert Alter-Gilbert (Translation) 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Mio Cid Campeador 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1975	My rating:
	Cagliostro 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Obra Poetica 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Obras Completas de Vicente Huidobro, 2 vols. 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1963	My rating:
	Poesía y Poética, 1911-1948 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Arctic Poems by Vicente Huidobro, Nathan Hoks (Translator) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010	My rating: