Fernando Fortun

FERNANDO FORTUN

(1890-1914)

"They were tight groups, always plotting,

in that beautiful time of the revolution ...

In passing, confused words were heard:

English gold ... the day the cry ... the Masons ... "

Fernando Fortun.

THE VOICE OF SHORT LIFE

Fernando Fortun, a poet of poor health and short-lived, died before the age of twenty-four years old, share their poetic compositions with the poets of the early twentieth twilight, Thomas Morales, Enrique Diez-Canedo ANGELES Vegue and Goldoni, Alonso Quesada and Pedro Salinas. In the preface to The time romantic, his only work published in his lifetime, written by his friend the poet Francisco Villaespesa Almeria, we accurately describes the poetry of the poet in Madrid: "I prefer drawing to color, citrus tones flees, notes rough, seeking instead, the big breaks, long silences, because they feel better the internal rhythm of your soul ... " And Juan Ramon Jimenez left us a portrait of the poet, seemed "a Chopin, adolescent and elegant, fresh and wilted at a time ... a young cypress slightly dejected I do not know that wind."

Fortun's poetry is full of frequent evocations of childhood, and especially the past, steeped in a sweet melancholy one, as in these verses: "For you, romance, my heart still burns; / to this world as old I have come too late, / I should be your lover and have been your son. " O in these others: "In an old forgotten box / cornered my mistress in a loft / of our old abandoned house / vague memories of my childhood are." Becquerian tone and remarkable technical virtuosity.

Fortun Fernando was born in Madrid on May 30, 1890 and died in Las Rozas, Madrid, May 6, 1914, due to pulmonary tuberculosis. Study Bachelor of General and Technical Institute of San Isidro and Law at the Central University, studies ending in 1910. Collaborate in several magazines of the era, including Prometheus Ramon Gomez de la Serna, who sees the light in 1908, and in which he published poems and translations, and Latina Magazine Villaespesa Francisco. Attend gatherings like Carmen de Burgos, a writer known by the pseudonym Colombine. Live for some time in Paris in 1910, the next year in Geneva. He travels to Jerez, Seville and Malaga in 1913. That year he edited with Enrique Diez-Canedo, an anthology entitled The modern French poetry, magnificent translations of Symbolist and Parnassian French, who had great influence among the young poets of the time.

In 1907, when the poet was only seventeen years old, appeared his first and only book published in his lifetime, the romantic hours. After his death published Relics (1914), which were collected prose, letters and poems left unpublished.

And as the poet said short-lived: "And peace is profound; / no rumors coming from outside. / The dusty books / yawn quietly ... / And before I open a volume, / that without seeing my eyes contemplate it. "

Francisco Arias Solis

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