Raul Gonzalez Tunon

RAUL GONZ? LEZ TUÑÓN

(1905-1974)

"At about ten o'clock came the planes. I was up and

I ran to the window. Shells were still falling in the heart

Madrid, wound, and universal heartbeat. Almost immediately stopped

of falling. Our aircraft had stopped the crime. And as the

fascist planes offer no fighter ever, cannons fascist

for fear of being located, they were silenced and hidden again

on earth offended by undermining coward. (This is not demagoguery, it is

a document.) "

Raul Gonzalez Tunon. Time in Spain.

VOICE OF FREEDOM POS

Raul Gonzalez Tunon was part of the delegation of Argentina, along with Pablo Rojas Paz and Iturburu Cayetano Córdova, who attended the Second Congress of Writers convened by the International Alliance of Antifascist Intellectuals, who met in Valencia, in July 1937, Jose Bergamin, Corpus Barga, Antonio Machado, Pablo Neruda, Fernando de los Rios, Ramón J. Sender, Vicente Huidobro, Juan Marinello Vidaurreta, Nicolás Guillén, Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Pellicer, José Mancisidor, Octavio Paz, Elena Garro, Ilya Ehrenburg, Bertolt Brecht, Anna Seghers, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich Mann, André Malraux, Louis Aragon, Cesar Vallejo Rafael Dieste, Rafael Alberti, John dos Passos, Julien Benda, Martin Andersen Nexo-, Se-U, Stephen Spender, Tristan Tzara, Emilio Prados, María Teresa León, Plaja Arturo Serrano, Juan Gil-Albert, Herrera Peter Lorenzo Varela Miguel Hernández, Ramón Gaya, Pascual Pla and Beltran, Ludwig Renn, André Chamson, Jef Last, Malcolm Cowley, Fedor Kelyin, etc..

Argentina the lead writer of the twenties, is one of the first poets of social poetry of his country and a politically engaged intellectual who traveled around the world in defense of socialism and its fight against fascism. The war provoked by General Franco's military uprising marked him forever. He is considered one of the leading poets of the twentieth century Argentina. From him, said his friend Pablo Neruda, in 1936: "Raul was the first shielded the rose."

The poet and journalist Raul Gonzalez Tunon born in Buenos Aires on March 29, 1905 and died in Argentina's capital on August 14, 1974. The son of Spanish immigrants, his grandfather was a socialist mining first brought him to a demonstration. Collaborate in magazines Faces and Masks, MI, Proa and Martin Fierro. With Boedo Group shares his social concern. Work in the journal Critique and later in the daily Clarin. Travel through Europe and lived in Paris and Madrid, cities that tried and befriended poets Robert Desnos, César Vallejo, Neruda, Lorca, Alberti and Miguel Hernández. In 1933 he founded the magazine in which he published against his poem "shock brigades", which is arrested and prosecuted for incitement to rebellion. During the Spanish war he returned to Spain. Collaborate in the leading journal of that time Spain time. Later, living in Chile and travels the Soviet Union and China.

In 1926 Gonzalez Tunon published his first book The Devil's violin and two years after Ash Wednesday. In Paris he published one of his major books Street hole in the mean (1930), which is followed by the other side of the star and everyone dances, poems by Johnny walker, both published in 1934. A key book in his literary work is The Armored Rose (1936), inspired by the mining revolution in Asturias. Other prominent books are: Death in Madrid (1939), Paths of third front (1939), The Street of Lost Dreams (1941), Argentine First song (1945), All men are brothers of the world (1954), A the shadow of the beloved neighborhood (1957), Complaint Against Forgetting (1963) and the direction of the lost islands (1967). And, as the Argentine poet: "I left behind the workers lucid / and no regrets. / They know what they want / and I want what they want: / freedom, properly understood."

Francisco Arias Solis

Freedom does not have those without thirst.

Of Internet Portal for Peace and Freedom and Free Forum.

URL: http://www.internautasporlapaz.org