Committed Generation
The Committed Generation ''(la Generación Comprometida in Spanish)'' was a literary generation that emerged in El Salvador during the 1950s, in which writers from various Latin American countries lived in El Salvador in exile or for diplomatic reasons. Among them are Otto René Castillo and Miguel Ángel Asturias from Guatemala, Guillermo Calderón Puig from Honduras, Rigoberto López Pérez from Nicaragua, Manuel Mejía Vallejo from Colombia and Darío Cossier from Argentina, among others. The name "Committed" ''(Comprometida)'' was coined by the poet Ítalo López Vallecillos, influenced by Sartrean thought. It had two stages: the first, with the founding nucleus, made up of López Vallecillos himself, Irma Lanzas, Waldo Chávez Velasco, Álvaro Menen Desleal, Eugenio Martínez Orantes and others. The second, with the emergence in 1956 of the Círculo Literario Universitario, founded in the Faculty of Law of the University of El Salvador. The Circle integrated the poets ...
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