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Salvador Novo


Born
in Mexico city, Mexico
July 30, 1904

Died
January 13, 1974

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, History, Poetry


Poeta, ensayista, dramaturgo e historiador mexicano, miembro del grupo 'Los Contemporáneos' y de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua. Su característica principal, como autor, fue su prosa hábil y rápida, así como su picardía al escribir. Se decía de él que era "el homosexual belicosamente reconocido y asumido en épocas de afirmación despiadada del machismo".

Hasta su muerte, publicó una extensa crónica sobre la vida artística e intelectual en México, en donde hace mención de cuanto personaje rondaba las más altas esferas de la cultura en México. En estos libros se dedica a comentar y criticar a diversos autores ya narrar los grandes espectáculos de la época.

Salvador Novo publicó 11 libros de poesía. Su obra trata temas como la llegada de un pr ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 713 ratings · 119 reviews · 111 distinct works • Similar authors
La estatua de sal
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Los paseos de la Ciudad de ...
4.08 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1974 — 4 editions
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Return, ticket
3.37 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1928 — 6 editions
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Las Locas, El Sexo Y Los Bu...
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Sátira. El libro ca...
4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1978 — 5 editions
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El joven
3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1923
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Nueva grandeza mexicana
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Las aves en la poesia caste...
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1953
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Cocina Mexicana Historia Ga...
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“La poesía, prostituida hasta su empleo más degradante, se desposaría con la música más banal para engendrar los jingles.”
― Salvador Novo
tags: publicidad
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“Aquella manifestación aberrante de la virtud del pudor que es el pecado de la soberbia.”
― Salvador Novo, La Vida En Mexico En El Periodo Presidencial de Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
tags: soberbia
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“The step-by-step matching of our internal rhythms—circulation, respiration—to the deliberate universal rhythms that surround, lull, rock, yoke us, is renounced when we set off in an automobile, at an insane speed, to simply cancel out distances, change locations, swallow up miles.”
― Salvador Novo
tags: distance, speed, travel, traveling, walking
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