Raúl Zurita
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Raúl Zurita Canessa is a Chile
an poet and anthologist. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature
in 2000.
His work is marked at the time of the seventies by the military dictatorship imposed by Augusto Pinochet in Chile after the coup of September 11, 1973. Communist Party member, was arrested, imprisoned and tortured in the cellars of cargo along with numerous people.1 Maipo 2 From this time carried out various activities intended to integrate artistic and expand critically and creatively different conceptions of art and life.
In this age group is also born CADA (Art Collective Action), which is part of what is known as Advanced Scene, where participation by the sociologist Fernando Balcells, and artists Lotty Rosenfeld, Juan Castillo and Diamela Eltit who based their artistic position in the use of the city as a space for creation. Zurita is considered one of the most radical of this group. Performs various actions using his body as a means of expression, some of which came to self-harm or self-mutilation: throw ammonia in the eyes, or burn your cheek with a hot iron. He also made a masturbatory performance in 1979-more-I can not Cal Santiago gallery in front of a painting of John Dávila.3
In 1982, his creative work takes a new step with the poem The New Life, written in the skies of New York, which drew five aircraft meddiante lal letters with white smoke that stood out against the blue sky. This creation was made up of fifteen sentences of 7-9 km long, in Spanish. The work was recorded on video by the artist Juan Downey. Another was to capture artistic action in the desert of Chile, the phrase "No pain or fear" (-24.037724, -70.440034) in 1993, whose photograph closes the book new life and by extension, 3140 meters. can only be read from above. These initiatives try to go beyond the traditional concept of literature, art approaching the total. Between 1979 and 1993 wrote the trilogy Zurita Purgatory (1979), Anteparaíso (1982) and The New Life (1993), which runs the most varied landscapes from deserts, beaches, mountains, grasslands and rivers. These works are considered among the most important production.
In the following period, the poet began to move away from the Communist Party. In 1990, he was appointed cultural attaché in Rome, under the government of Patricio Aylwin.
In 2000 received the National Prize for Literature in Chile. In mid-2007 published Countries Dead, a book that provokes much controversy since it was mentioned several characters from the national cultural activities. In late 2007, appear in Mexico's cities water, and later that same year, five fragments. During 2008, continues to publish excerpts from his last major work, entitled Zurita, a text of over 750 pages where you intend to close the cycle of Purgatory 'while creating an intertext header with his work, The Divine Comedy.
Zurita has been a visiting professor at Tufts University, California State University and teaches at the Universidad Diego Portales.
Many foreign researchers have devoted to writing poetry thesis of Raul Zurita, Benoît Santini as French (Le discours poétique Raul Zurita: between silence et dans le Chili engagement manifeste des années 1975-2000, 2008).
His books have been translated into English, German, Swedish, Bengali, Chinese, Italian and Russian.
In his poetry, Jorge Edwards has written: "Without speaking to claims of poetry critic, I think the work of Chilean poetry Zurita is quite anomalous and quite eccentric, in the literal sense, not pejorative, this last word.'s as Neruda, a poet of natural space and time, it touches, in a more deliberate Neruda, certain themes as religious. Their language, however, is almost the opposite of the rhetoric Neruda. He goes, however at that condition somewhat mathematical, algebraic, the language of Vicente Huidobro ".4
Anteparaíso (1982)
Paradise is empty (1984)
Song of love gone (1985)
The love of Chile (1987)
Song of the rivers they love (1993)
The New Life (1994)
The white day (2000)
About love, suffering, and the new millennium (2000)
Militants Poems (2000)
INRI (2003)
Dead Poems (2006)
Countries Dead (2007)
Cities Water (2008)
In Memoriam (2008)
Five fragments (2008)
Journal of war (2009)
Dreams for Kurosawa (2010)
Zurita (2011)
Pablo Neruda Prize 1988
Pericles Gold Award 1994, Italy
Municipal Poetry Prize 1995, Santiago, Chile, New life
National Literature Prize, Chile (2000)
Künstlerprogramm Fellow DAAD, Berlin 2002
Altazor Award Finalist for Poetry 2004 with INRI
Casa de las Americas Prize for Poetry 2006 José Lezama Lima, Havana, Cuba, by INRI
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
an poet and anthologist. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature
Chilean National Prize for Literature
Chile's National Prize for Literature was created by Law No. 7,368 during the presidency of Juan Antonio Ríos on 8 November 1942. It consists of a lump-sum monetary prize and a life-time monthly stipend . It was originally awarded every year until the amendments introduced by Law No...
in 2000.
Biography
Raúl Zurita Lastarria studied at the Lyceum. He began university studies in mathematics and graduated in Civil Engineering Structures by the Technical University Federico Santa Maria Valparaiso.His work is marked at the time of the seventies by the military dictatorship imposed by Augusto Pinochet in Chile after the coup of September 11, 1973. Communist Party member, was arrested, imprisoned and tortured in the cellars of cargo along with numerous people.1 Maipo 2 From this time carried out various activities intended to integrate artistic and expand critically and creatively different conceptions of art and life.
In this age group is also born CADA (Art Collective Action), which is part of what is known as Advanced Scene, where participation by the sociologist Fernando Balcells, and artists Lotty Rosenfeld, Juan Castillo and Diamela Eltit who based their artistic position in the use of the city as a space for creation. Zurita is considered one of the most radical of this group. Performs various actions using his body as a means of expression, some of which came to self-harm or self-mutilation: throw ammonia in the eyes, or burn your cheek with a hot iron. He also made a masturbatory performance in 1979-more-I can not Cal Santiago gallery in front of a painting of John Dávila.3
In 1982, his creative work takes a new step with the poem The New Life, written in the skies of New York, which drew five aircraft meddiante lal letters with white smoke that stood out against the blue sky. This creation was made up of fifteen sentences of 7-9 km long, in Spanish. The work was recorded on video by the artist Juan Downey. Another was to capture artistic action in the desert of Chile, the phrase "No pain or fear" (-24.037724, -70.440034) in 1993, whose photograph closes the book new life and by extension, 3140 meters. can only be read from above. These initiatives try to go beyond the traditional concept of literature, art approaching the total. Between 1979 and 1993 wrote the trilogy Zurita Purgatory (1979), Anteparaíso (1982) and The New Life (1993), which runs the most varied landscapes from deserts, beaches, mountains, grasslands and rivers. These works are considered among the most important production.
In the following period, the poet began to move away from the Communist Party. In 1990, he was appointed cultural attaché in Rome, under the government of Patricio Aylwin.
In 2000 received the National Prize for Literature in Chile. In mid-2007 published Countries Dead, a book that provokes much controversy since it was mentioned several characters from the national cultural activities. In late 2007, appear in Mexico's cities water, and later that same year, five fragments. During 2008, continues to publish excerpts from his last major work, entitled Zurita, a text of over 750 pages where you intend to close the cycle of Purgatory 'while creating an intertext header with his work, The Divine Comedy.
Zurita has been a visiting professor at Tufts University, California State University and teaches at the Universidad Diego Portales.
Many foreign researchers have devoted to writing poetry thesis of Raul Zurita, Benoît Santini as French (Le discours poétique Raul Zurita: between silence et dans le Chili engagement manifeste des années 1975-2000, 2008).
His books have been translated into English, German, Swedish, Bengali, Chinese, Italian and Russian.
In his poetry, Jorge Edwards has written: "Without speaking to claims of poetry critic, I think the work of Chilean poetry Zurita is quite anomalous and quite eccentric, in the literal sense, not pejorative, this last word.'s as Neruda, a poet of natural space and time, it touches, in a more deliberate Neruda, certain themes as religious. Their language, however, is almost the opposite of the rhetoric Neruda. He goes, however at that condition somewhat mathematical, algebraic, the language of Vicente Huidobro ".4
Work
Purgatory (1979)Anteparaíso (1982)
Paradise is empty (1984)
Song of love gone (1985)
The love of Chile (1987)
Song of the rivers they love (1993)
The New Life (1994)
The white day (2000)
About love, suffering, and the new millennium (2000)
Militants Poems (2000)
INRI (2003)
Dead Poems (2006)
Countries Dead (2007)
Cities Water (2008)
In Memoriam (2008)
Five fragments (2008)
Journal of war (2009)
Dreams for Kurosawa (2010)
Zurita (2011)
Awards
1984 Guggenheim Fellow FudaciónPablo Neruda Prize 1988
Pericles Gold Award 1994, Italy
Municipal Poetry Prize 1995, Santiago, Chile, New life
National Literature Prize, Chile (2000)
Künstlerprogramm Fellow DAAD, Berlin 2002
Altazor Award Finalist for Poetry 2004 with INRI
Casa de las Americas Prize for Poetry 2006 José Lezama Lima, Havana, Cuba, by INRI