Ni hard marble and eternal
or music or painting, but word
time.
or music or painting, but word
time.
These verses of Antonio Machado conduct and work of poet and avid accurate way of light throughout the night of history, to return a strong echo of awareness needed today. Machado prophesied the ice cream Spain fracture between a new and enlightened and obscurantist counterbalance stagnant and was, finally, a victim like so many hundreds of thousands of English and English fascist injustice. If García Lorca plays the cold-blooded killing that the coup planted gullies and ditches from the beginning of "uprising" and the name of Miguel Hernandez is synonymous with the immense suffering in overcrowded prison that became the whole of Spain, Antonio Machado the poet of exile, the poet of the English withdrawal to the south of France, a massive movement of displaced persons from war and political repression was first drip since the end of 1938 almost avalanche. Antonio Machado
go to France with very poor health and in January 1939. On July 18, 1936 in Madrid caught him, and his clear identification with the legitimate government (he had been a member of the Republican Action Azaña) quickly became alive militancy in defense of the Republic. He was a poet declared "war", that age and health could no longer be on the front and that, however, wanted to do and turned his pen a gun in the service of democracy and anti-fascism. Madrid was evacuated (mandatory since he refused), to Valencia, and when Franco's victory prospects were becoming more accurate, he moved with his mother even more ill, his brother Joseph and his wife, to the route were so many other people. He reached the beautiful village of Collioure, in Catalunya Nord, and stayed in the guesthouse Casa Quintana, on a street that now bears the name of the poet, but his stay there was never a month and died on February 22, 1939. At his funeral arrived dead only two crowns, the Republican English ambassador in Paris and the English Center Perpignan -A must for the social history of English immigration, built between 1916 and 1920 -. Machado could have grave thanks to the niche that you gave a native, and it was in 1957 and by popular-in a campaign led by Pau Casals, when he met enough money to build a tomb in a cemetery Highlights Collioure, where the ground gave the council the moment.
Visit today the beautiful village of Collioure and the simple but emphatic tomb of Antonio Machado is felt throughout the dimension of the poet: the many expressions of love, admiration and I remember that land on the headstone, next to the mailbox-enabled next to it and withdraw each month dozens of letters, are the best example of how it was done their word in time. Retrace the steps from Collioure to English territory, leaving behind the grave of Machado, Elna Maternity , the English Centre Perpignan , the c Argelès ampos concentration or Rivesaltes, do stop at the Museu de l' Exili of La Jonquera, is back home with more desire than ever to read Machado and experience how the profound sadness stolen memory of men and women who had to leave everything, melancholy Mazeran so it could be and what ultimately was, there might be anything remotely resembling hope. And, as pointed out by Emilio Lledó, Machado's poetry echoes the history of the country that would want to belong. For the word useful in time is a mixture of comfort and rebellion, or not.
go to France with very poor health and in January 1939. On July 18, 1936 in Madrid caught him, and his clear identification with the legitimate government (he had been a member of the Republican Action Azaña) quickly became alive militancy in defense of the Republic. He was a poet declared "war", that age and health could no longer be on the front and that, however, wanted to do and turned his pen a gun in the service of democracy and anti-fascism. Madrid was evacuated (mandatory since he refused), to Valencia, and when Franco's victory prospects were becoming more accurate, he moved with his mother even more ill, his brother Joseph and his wife, to the route were so many other people. He reached the beautiful village of Collioure, in Catalunya Nord, and stayed in the guesthouse Casa Quintana, on a street that now bears the name of the poet, but his stay there was never a month and died on February 22, 1939. At his funeral arrived dead only two crowns, the Republican English ambassador in Paris and the English Center Perpignan -A must for the social history of English immigration, built between 1916 and 1920 -. Machado could have grave thanks to the niche that you gave a native, and it was in 1957 and by popular-in a campaign led by Pau Casals, when he met enough money to build a tomb in a cemetery Highlights Collioure, where the ground gave the council the moment.
Visit today the beautiful village of Collioure and the simple but emphatic tomb of Antonio Machado is felt throughout the dimension of the poet: the many expressions of love, admiration and I remember that land on the headstone, next to the mailbox-enabled next to it and withdraw each month dozens of letters, are the best example of how it was done their word in time. Retrace the steps from Collioure to English territory, leaving behind the grave of Machado, Elna Maternity , the English Centre Perpignan , the c Argelès ampos concentration or Rivesaltes, do stop at the Museu de l' Exili of La Jonquera, is back home with more desire than ever to read Machado and experience how the profound sadness stolen memory of men and women who had to leave everything, melancholy Mazeran so it could be and what ultimately was, there might be anything remotely resembling hope. And, as pointed out by Emilio Lledó, Machado's poetry echoes the history of the country that would want to belong. For the word useful in time is a mixture of comfort and rebellion, or not.
