Evaristo Carriego
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Carriego Evaristo was born in Paraná, Entre Rios, on May 7, 1883. His family had long roots in the province, descendants of Hernan Mejia Seville Mirabal (Bravo), one of the founders of the city of El Barco "now called Santiago del Estero.
His grandfather, who Carriego recalls a story I remember of my time, was proud warrior and legislator career: "Where the law of Paraná decided to lift Justo José de Urquiza a statue in life the only Member who was the doctor Carriego protest in prayer beautiful but useless ... " (Jorge Luis Borges, Evaristo Carriego. Buenos Aires, 1930).
During his childhood, he moved with his family to Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo (Honduras between Bulnes and Mario Bravo). Theirs is, since then, a linear existence, no outbursts, no memorable milestones. He lived in certain intimate affection, the love of a dead girl, friends safe. R visited
Editors and magazines, some anarchists, anarchism, as autoadjetivaría Carriego in a story-such as protest. There he met John More and Pi, who, along with Marcelo del Mazo, is a close friend and understanding. These were years of discussions on imported ideas and literature that is being done: "... the heart that so funny," says More and Pi-, which was in the drafting of the protest, I was then a simple anarchist newspaper of ideas, where it became more Acracia literature, and where the charm of a beautiful sentence was worth more than all the claims of Kropotkin and Jean Grave. "
Carriego lived in this Buenos Aires with the security of being a poet and the urgency of the award: "laid his verses in the coffee," says Jorge Luis Borges in the work cited, "tilted the conversation to topics neighbors versed him.
participated, with their urges, the literary circles of the first decade of the twentieth century, famous cafes frequented, was revealed to the early meetings of writers, but going away slowly, like returning to a single point of interest: "Instead of amplifying more each day his field of observation - Jorge Luis Borges adds, "seemed to revel in reducing Carriego. I am satisfied with the heart of a girl who suffers, said one day in the heat of a discussion."
His life and his poetry was, with parent-short life was simple: the poet dies, aged 29, 13 October 1912, tísico.Publica his first book of poems, Masses heretics in 1908. Start inevitable poetic life that reveal influences from the very title echoes of Satanism fashion Baudelairian root in the reduction ad absurdum by the paradox of mysticism, masses and heretics.
Almost everything is inheritance and rhetoric school in this book, divided into five sections, clearly modernist trend. Then come the soul of suburbia and the song of the neighborhood in which they operate all the archetypes that constitute his personal mythology and Tango Buenos Aires where the include the handsome, cafes, neighborhood, etc.. All published posthumously. A street in the city of Buenos Aires in the Palermo district has named in his honor.
died in the City of Buenos Aires, an October 13, 1912.
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