Authors and their achievements
Author who was born in Sevilla near the Puerta Jerez metro station
Who was Vicente Aleixandre?
Novel that follows the somewhat monotonous daily lives of people in Madrid, mostly set in a cafe
What is The Hive? (Camilo Jose Cela)
Doña Rosa
from Cela's The Hive, owned the cafe and was in charge of the prostitution, outward Franco supporter
The noise has stopped: is he already on the sand, which muffles his footsteps? The woman has her face turned toward the left and her eyes, like a squashed iguana's, bulge from their sockets.
Social realism
Camilo José Cela
Colombian author known for magic realism style, nicknamed "Gabo"
Who was Gabriel García Márquez?
Vicente Aleixandre has ___ eras of poetry, name some famous works
3 distinct eras of poetry, most famous works are "History of the heart," "Song to a dead girl," and "Wholeness within her"
Javier and Leon
2 students from Llosa's "The Leaders" that help the narrator with the demonstrations against the principal
Time of softness and permanence;
hoofbeats didn't pound in my chest,
the hooves didn't stay behind, they weren't wax.
Tears fell like kisses.
And in the ear the echo was already solid.
"At the Bottom of the Well" (Vicente Aleixandre)
A combination of surrealism and sensuality
Octavio Paz
The most modern author to win the Prize, Peruvian, first non-French member of the French Academy and a politician
Who is Mario Vargas Llosa?
Gabriel García Marquez's famous novel
100 Years of Solitude
Senator Onésimo Sánchez
Senator who is in love with Laura, Nelson Farina's young daughter, in Death Constant Beyond Love (Gabriel García Márquez)
Death Constant Beyond Love (Gabriel García Márquez)
Surrealism
Vicente Aleixandre
A Spanish-born author who worked as a censor under Franco - ironically, had many of their own works censored
Who was Camilo José Cela?
The woman who is the subject of Elena Garro's poem "The Huisache Plain"
Elena
If you are the rising sun
I am the road of blood
"Motion" (Octavio Paz)
Magic realism
Gabriel García Márquez
Author who used Mexican identity as the inspiration for many of his essays
BONUS: His wife was an author, activist, used themes of magic realism
Who was Octavio Paz?
BONUS: Who was Elena Garro?
Name some of the works or themes by Octavio Paz and Elena Garro
Paz: The Labyrinth of Solitude (Mexican Mask - Mexican identity), Sun Stone (modeled after Aztec calendar - erotic theme)
Garro: The Week of Colors (short story collection), general themes - social justice, existential order, race, and gender
Poor leftist writer who is thrown out of Doña Rosa's cafe to wander the streets of Madrid
Martín Marco
The man is not a nobody, not one of the hoi polloi, not a vulgar man, one of the herd, an ordinary, standardised human being... As a young man he had a fiancee who was Swiss, and he used to write futurist poetry.
The Hive (Camilo José Cela)
"Playful postmodernism"
Mario Vargas Llosa