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Café Gijón
Café Gijón (Also known as ''Gran Café de Gijón'') is a culturally significant coffeehouseAntonio Espina, «''Las tertulias de Madrid''», Madrid, Alianza, 1995 situated at No. 21,José Esteban,Blanca Mena,Pilar Mateos,Marta Menacho Julián Marcos, Mariano Tudela, (2002), ''«El libro del Café Gijón»'',Madrid in the boulevard of central Madrid, Spain, which is known as Paseo de Recoletos. The café is opposite both a railway station of the same name and the National Library of Spain (BNE). The terrace in front is on the central walkway of the Paseo. History It was established on 15 May 1888 by ''Gumersindo Gómez''Angel del Río López, (2003), «''Los viejos cafés de Madrid''», Ed. Madrid, (possibly ''Gunmersindo García''). Despite modest beginnings, after the Spanish Civil War it became a meeting-place for intellectuals, writers and artists collectively known as Generation of '36. It was also known by Hollywood stars and foreign writers such as Ava Gardner, Orson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truman Capote
Truman Garcia Capote ( ; born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. His work and his life story have been adapted into and have been the subject of more than 20 films and television productions. Capote had a troubled childhood caused by his parents' divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple moves. He was planning to become a writer by the time he was eight years old, and he honed his writing ability throughout his childhood. He began his professional career writing short stories. The critical success of "Miriam (short story), Miriam" (1945) attracted the attention of Random House publisher Bennett Cerf and resulted in a contract to write the novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Benet
Juan Benet (7 October 1927 – 5 January 1993) was a Spanish novelist, dramatist and essayist who also worked as a civil engineer. Early life Benet was born in Madrid. At the start of the Spanish Civil War, his father was executed by a firing squad in Republican held Madrid, and together with his family he left for San Sebastián to find refuge with relatives. They stayed there until 1939, when they returned to the capital. In 1944, he completed his high school education and in 1948 he entered into the School of Civil Engineering in Madrid. He frequented the discussion group at Café Gijón, in Madrid, where he met the man who would become his best friend, Luis Martín Santos, among other authors of that time. In 1953, still a student, he started an engineering internship in Finland and published his first play, ''Max'', in which one can see the beginnings of a singular literary style that distances itself from the popular themes of Spanish literature of that era. In 1954, Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Umbral
Francisco Alejandro Pérez Martínez (11 May 1932 – 28 August 2007), better known as Francisco Umbral, was a Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist. Style Although he was born in Madrid, a city that has inspired most of his work, his early years were spent in Valladolid. His mother travelled to Madrid for his birth, because he was an illegitimate child. His mother's indifference and distance from him left him with an enduring sadness, as did the death of his only son at the age of six, which caused him to write his saddest and most personal book, ''Mortal y rosa'' (''A Mortal Spring''). This fostered a characteristic bitter and stiff outlook in the author, devoid of hopefulness, absolutely submerged in literature, which has provoked many controversies and hostilities. In Valladolid, he began his journalistic career at ''El Norte de Castilla'', under the tutorship of Miguel Delibes. In 1961, he went to Madrid as a correspondent for said newspaper and quickly bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diego Medrano
Diego Medrano Fernández (Oviedo, Spain, 1978) is a Spanish poet, narrator and regular columnist of Asturian newspaper '' El Comercio''. Life Begins philosophy studies in the Universidad de Oviedo, where, ''"after feeling like Oscar Wilde in prison"'', and telling himself a certain quote by Francois Mauriac -''"Freedom and health are the same thing"''- he soon leaves everything for the sake of his cyclopean literary vocation. ''"Perpetual writer, always writer"'', he is the heir of a tradition that combines decadence and culture in the same identity: Jean Lorrain, Charles Baudelaire, Max Jacob, Arthur Rimbaud, Emile Cioran, Louis Aragon, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Georges Bataille among others. He steps into the world of literature with the book: ''Los héroes inutiles'' (''The Useless Heroes'') ( Ellago Ediciones, 2005), a complete collection of the correspondence that he held with Spanish "damned" writer Leopoldo María Panero, that serves as a literary poetic where the autho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Oroza
Carlos Oroza (13 May 1923 – 20 November 2015) was a Spanish poet. Style He is known mainly for the interpretation and performance of his own work. His work is composed of free verses with rhythm. In the 1960s when he was living in Madrid, he became known in the literary-poetic environment of the Café Gijón, oasis of national coexistence, culture and contra cultural movements during Franco’s dictatorship. At that time he founded, along with Victor Lizarraga and Victoria Paniagua, the Tropos magazine and participated in jazz-poetry recitals. He was living in Madrid, Ibiza and the U.S., where he was awarded with the International Underground Poetry award of New York and, incognito, he came back to his own land in 1985. Oroza’s poetry is often considered in form and content attached to the Beat Generation though he never belonged to any movement. Carlos Oroza, acratic and poet, walks by Vigo like a walking contraculture symbol. 'What strange beings... those who are n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Of Fuencarral Street
The crime of Fuencarral street (also known as the murder on Fuencarral street or the case of Fuencarral street) was a murder that took place in 1888 on the second floor, left side, of number 109 of Calle de Fuencarral, Fuencarral Street in Madrid. This number does not exist on the current street map, since it jumps from number 107 to 111, with gate number 1 of the Glorieta de Bilbao roundabout between them. Therefore, number 109 would correspond to current number 95, on the corner with Divino Pastor Street. On the morning of 2 July 1888, neighbors alerted the police, who discovered the body of Doña Luciana Borcino, widow of Vázquez-Varela, lying on her back, covered with wet rags that had been doused in lamp oil and set on fire. She was found in a closed room. In the next room, they found a bulldog and Doña Luciana's house-maid, Higinia Balaguer Ostalé, both sleeping under the effects of a narcotic drug. The investigation by the police had the Spanish society of the time on te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Residencia De Estudiantes
ESO Hotel at Cerro Paranal (or Residencia) is the accommodation for Paranal Observatory in Chile since 2002. It is mainly used for the ESO ( European Southern Observatory) scientists and engineers who work there on a roster system. It has been called a "boarding house on Mars", because the desert surroundings are Mars-like, and an "Oasis for astronomers". It is not a commercial hotel, and the public cannot book rooms. The architect was the Chilean-born Hernán Marchant, a current Professor and Associate Dean at North Carolina State University, the architecture firm was Auer+Weber+Assoziierte of Germany and constructor was Vial y Vives Ltda. of Chile. It won the Cityscape Architectural Review Awards in 2005. In 2004 it won the new and overall Leaf-Awards. Operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), an organization based in Munich, the VLT ( Very Large Telescope) is reportedly the most powerful telescope based on Earth. Location The hotel is at above sea level on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
