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Antonio Machado, who was a spanish poet, was born In Sevilla, the city where he spent all his childhood. -
He moved to Madrid with his family, where he began to study at the “Instituto Libre de Enseñanza“ -
It was his first book that apperared In “La caricatura”. The book is about to prevent the monarch from having to fight with the challenger, an elderly gentleman, Count Don Milián, confronts Tablante, who defeats him and takes him prisoner. After the departure of both, a young knight named Jofre takes on himself the task of going in search of him and freeing the old count.
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During his first trip to the French capital, he worked at the Garnier publishing house, and he became friends with Rubén Darío. -
He obtained the chair of French at the Institute of Soria
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This was his third book, where he sought the reissue and expansion of the interior, the melancholic and intimate tone became more evident, the use of humor as a distancing element and, above all, the intention of capturing the fluidity of time. -
He married Leonor Izquierdo in the city of Soria. Person with whom he stay 3 years since he died in 1912 because of tuberculosis.
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In 1910 he was granted a pension to study philology in Paris for a year, a stay that he took advantage of to attend the philosophy courses of Henri Bergson and Joseph Bédier at the College de France. -
Machado, considered that his mission was to eternalize the momentary, capture the fugitive wave and transform the poem into "word in time." He translated this into "Campos de Castilla". This book is not just a play in which a murder is told. It talks about a story whose center is murder, but also that there is divine justice, that is, if someone does a bad deed, sooner or later there will be a punishment for it. -
The style that Machado uses in his book "New Songs" was already a trend in the years 1912 and 1925, a period in which Machado wrote a series of notes that would be published in "Comments" . This book give title to Antonio Machado's notebook where, in the manner of notes or drafts, texts that are now essential to frame the author's literary creation and to understand better his ideas about the poetry and politics of his weather.
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New songs is the title of a collection of poems by Antonio Machado published in Madrid. The author intensified both his reflective approach and sententious line of the "Proverbs and Songs" included in the previous book. -
With 43 years was chosen as a member of the Real Spanish Academy. -
In this book brings together the collection of essays that Machado had published in the Madrid press since 1934. Through its pages, an imaginary teacher and his students analyze society, culture, art, literature, politics, philosophy. -
Last book written by Machado. During the civil war, Machado wrote some poems and several prose texts, part of which were collected in this book. These are testimonial writings, fully incardinated in the historical circumstances of the moment.