Ramon Xirau

Ramon Xirau SUB? AS

"Dances

in hair

small red flowers,

venting is very calm,

and you, girl, accurate

fall in love with the countryside,

song so blue and so simple. "

Ramon Xirau.

THE VOICE OF AN "EX-CHILD"

Ramon Xirau belongs to those exiles who were children or youths in 1939 and therefore did not have the political will of its own, most of which came from Spain simply accompanying their parents, but later corroborated his father's will free decision. The largest group of these that were revealed as writers, Ramon Xirau, Blanco Aguinaga, Juan Marichal, Roberto Ruiz, Manuel Duran, Tomás Segovia first went to France, where he studied part of the school and then accompanied his parents to Mexico. These children of the exile were called the "ex-kids".

A Xirau Ramon, Manuel Duran, Tomás Segovia, Ascot Jomier Garcia, Carlos Blanco Aguinaga ..., who were born between 1924 and 1927, we find, in the last years of the forties, creating and working around the Presence magazine, founded in 1948 and directed by García Ascot. "Presence Xirau told us, was the ultimate expression of what might be called" concern for the exile. '" Xirau Ramon begins to write poetry in Catalan, and prose, in Castilian. He also helped the magazine's most famous Spanish exile the Spains and the Bulletin of the Union of Spanish Intellectuals / Mexico.

The poet, literary critic and philosopher Ramon Xirau Subías born in Barcelona on January 20, 1924. Son of the famous philosopher Joaquin Xirau. He began his studies in a montessori school in his hometown. During the war provoked by the military rebellion of General Franco, his parents sent him to France, where he attended the Lycee Michel Montaigne in Paris and Marseilles Périer Lyceum. In February 1939, her father accompanied by his wife, Antonio Machado and his mother, and others, are obliged to join us on the road to exile. Xirau Ramon was reunited with his parents in Paris, then end his exile in Mexico. There, he studied at the Liceo Franco Mexicano, before moving to the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in which he had as teachers some exiles, like his father and Jose Gaos, and where earned a master's degree and then a doctorate in philosophy. In 1949 he married Ana Maria Icaza Guido. In 1955 he obtained Mexican citizenship, making that year specialized studies at the Sorbonne and later in Cambridge. In 1973 he joined the National College of Mexico, and the first member not born in Mexico.

He was founder and editor of the Dialogues, published by that institution and is one of the best designed of the Hispanic world. He taught at the Liceo Franco Mexicano and the University of the Americas, where he was director of the Department of Philosophy, then, a teacher at the Faculty of Arts and researcher at the Institute for Philosophical Research at UNAM. He has collaborated in countless magazines, among which include, in addition to the above: Cuadernos Americanos, Vuelta, Revista Mexicana de Literatura, Journal of Fine Arts? Consul, Europe, the Gazette de Lausanne, Atlantic Monthly, Texas University, Le Scarab and Centre Pompidou

Xirau is a member of Science Advisory Council of Presidency of the Republic since its founding in 1994. Among his numerous awards and distinctions quote: Member of the Mexican Academy of Language (1994), Doctor "honoris causa" of the University of the Americas (1970) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1984), title, will also receive in September this year, UNAM, Researcher Emeritus of the UNAM (1993), Creator Emeritus of the National System of Creators (1993), National University Prize (1988), Grand Cross of the Order of Isabel the Catholic (Spain, 1979) , Legion of Honor (France, 1990), Alfonso Reyes International Prize (1988), Mazatlán Prize for Literature (1990), Magda Donato Prize for Literature (1970), National Prize of Sciences and Arts (1995), Knight of Arts and of Letters (France, 1964), Order of Academic Palms (France, 1975), Commander (Italy, 1971), Knight of the Order of Merit (France, 1964), Cross of St. George (Generalitat de Catalunya, 1997) Grand Cross of Civil Merit (King of Spain, 2006), Gold Medal of Fine Arts (2009). International Octavio Paz Prize for Poetry and Essay 2009 (shared with Ida Vitale), Medal of Alonso de la Veracruz (2010).



In 1951 he published his first book Xirau Ten poems later appeared L 'Espill soterrat (1955), which reveals an unresolved metaphysical, a passion for the man and his ambiguous destinations, in a lyric that sometimes recalls Paul Eluard, and surprised by the colorful language metaphorically. His first book of poetry that appeared in Spain was the beaches (1974). Rich literary critic multiple training and curiosities, is distinguished by the safety and accuracy of their judgments, with a preference for the comment of poetry, especially that of Octavio Paz and Xavier Villaurrutia, A book Octavio Paz: The sense of word (1970) have accompanied many other studies on poetry, supported by a solid scholarship in philosophy and literature. He has also delved into the links between philosophy, poetry and religion. Of his numerous works, quote: Time and Existence (1947), Sense of presence (1953), Three poets of Solitude: Gorostiza, Villaurrutia and Peace (1955), The Pendulum and the spiral (1959), Poets in Mexico and of Spain (1961), Word and Silence (1964), Introduction to the History of Philosophy (1964), Myth and Poetry (1964), The nature of man (1968, in collaboration with Erich Fromm), Cities (1970), of ideas and no ideas (1974), The development of the crisis of philosophy in the West (1975), Poetry and Knowledge (1979), among gods and idols (1980), Ars Brevis, captions and comments (1983), Time lived (1985), four philosophers and the sacred (Teillard de Chardin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Simone Weil) (1986), mysticism (1993), Memorial of Masks and Other Essays (1995), Poems (1996), Genius and figure of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1997), Collected Works of Joaquin Xirau (1999), and his last poems live Natures (1997) Time and Places (2002).

And as we heard the poet-philosopher: "I know the silence explodes / on strawberries alive / in the afternoon."

Francisco Arias Solis

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