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Rafael Alberti (16 December 1902 - 28 November 1999) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27.

When think about a career as a painter, Alberti published his number 1 books of poetry towards the prevent of the 1920s: Marinero en tierra ('Sailor in Dry Land', 1925), La Amante ('The Mistress', 1926) and El alba del alhelí ('A Dawn of the Wallflower', 1927). This early operate fell broadly into a Cancionero tradition, though from the markedly avant-garde perspective.

When falling around by using a more members of the Generation of '27, Alberti began to show the profound influence of Luis de Góngora on his work, most obviously in Cal y canto ('Quicklime and Plainsong', 1929). It was, nevertheless, a introverted surrealism of Sobre los ángeles ('On a Angels', 1929), whose tone was perhaps anticipated by a few of the supplementary sombre moments of Cal y canto, that established Alberti as a matured poet. Sobre los ángeles is widely considered to become Alberti's better operate.

In a period of the 1930s Alberti's work became overtly political, beginning by owning Con los zapatos puestos tengo que morir ('We've to Die Wearing our Have Shoes', 1930). A establishment of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931 pushed Alberti towards Marxism and he joined a Communist Person. His poetry from either this militant time is collected inside Consignas ('Orders', 1933), Un fantasma recorre Europa ('A Ghost Stalks Europe', 1933), 13 bandas y 48 estrellas ('Thirteen Stripes & 48 Stars', 1936) and El poeta nut la calle ('Poet in the Street', 1938).

The Stalwart in the Spanish Civil War, Alberti fled to Argentina following the triumph of Franco in 1939. On this button he worked for the Losado publishing firm & continued writing & painting. His operate within exile is good of nostalgia for Spain, notably a poetry collection Entre el clavel y la espada ('Between Carnation & Blade', 1941). He as well published collections inspired by various themes, including painting (The la pintura ('In Painting', 1945)) and a sea (Pleamar ('High Tide', 1944), Oda marítima ('Maritime Ode', 1953)). His autobiography, La arboleda perdida ('A Wasted Grove') was published around 1942.

Fallowing sleep in various European cities, including Paris and Rome, he returned to Spain in 1977.

Alberti's plays include El cat deshabitado ('A Empty Human', 1930), Fermín Galán (1931), De un momento a otro ('From either Of these Moment to An additional', 1938-39), El trébol florido ('Clover', 1940), El adefesio ('The Disaster', 1944) and Noche diamond state guerra nut el Museo del Prado ('The Nighttime of War in the Prado Museum', 1956), when well as adaptions & more short pieces.

Alberti was awarded a Premio Cervantes, the Spanish literary globe's greatest honour, within 1983.

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Rafael Alberti
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Alberti, Rafael
Argentine artist, poet and author, born in 1903 and died in 1999. Contains a biography.






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