Simon Otaola

IN THE THIRTY YEARS OF DEATH

SIMON Otaola

(1907-1980)

"Today as we walk the same paths,

I feel like I was assaulted from every stone

the memories. And a deep, ineffable

makes me melancholy soul in a garruño.?

S. Otaola.

THE VOICE OF THE EXILIOOtaola CRONISTA, one of the most successful designers of contemporary literature, is also a keen humorist. All production is dominated by Basque writer a humorous vein in which precedent is Ramon Gomez de la Serna. In literature Otaola life is life and literature, and both phenomena are reflected in the lavish style of the author. Wildly imaginative writer paradoxically always part of reality. The imaginative, the personal vision prevails in his books that are chronic, men, Arana's bookstore, and a reality transformed cleverly imposed where they are fiction, especially in courtship. While an author is difficult to classify by their infrequent structural procedures, by its subjects, is a storyteller very interested in exile, to the point where he could be considered as the chronicler of exile.

Simon Otaola Oyarzábal born in San Sebastian on May 1, 1907 and died in Mexico City on April 15, 1980. Soon he lost his father dies of a streetcar accident. At age ten he moved with his family to Madrid. He attended primary school children in the center of Madrid. He works in the leasing company's monopoly Petroleos SA (CAMPSA), with trade union leader of your company. Madrid is known as Otaola. "I deeply hate Simon wrote to me later, 'like him refers to his friend Blas Lopez Fandos-hate with the same passion to his Blas?. Is a regular attendee to the literary circles before the war due to the military uprising of General Franco. During the war's political commissar at the 27 Division fronts in Aragon and Lleida in the Ebro campaign After the war is on the road of exile, crossing the Pyrenees, and after a short stay in the French concentration camp of Septfonds, march to Mexico. He lives in Guanajuato, Veracruz and the capital of the country. He works as a publicist at National Film and was a founder of Tertulia Magazine and the Editorial Coven.

Collaborate in various newspapers and magazines, including Threshold, Journal of the University of Guanajuato, and the Spains, the most prestigious journal in exile. Recently the film Otaola, or the Republic of Exile (2000) Mexican director Raúl Busteros figure has rescued from oblivion Basque writer.

Some men (1950), is a series of portraits of exiles, as he says Johannine Renau, in the prologue, could be called "gallery of men whatsoever?. The human profile of the characters takes precedence over history. The library Arana (1952), is a cornerstone for understanding the Spanish exile in Mexico, full of the Spanish Anas exiles in that country, its difficulties and ambitions, his bitterness and loneliness, their successes and failures are screened by a mood smoother. The library has Arana Otaola in that given the surprisingly abundant production of Max Aub was called in Mexico "even more?.

From these we turn to the actual works of fiction, first in the Pirul Thrushes (1953), which best pays tribute to Gomez de la Serna. It's the story, carefree, crazy, full of humor and greguerías, a Mexican town San Felipe Torresmochas. Although the story has an individual protagonist, "The Pirate?, The real theme of the book is the town and its people. Courtship (1963), is its greatest novel, again a chronicle of the Spanish exile but this time from a fiction novel. The author presents a long list of characters in exile full of humor and sarcasm also. His characters appear from the distorting lens of the author. Although this book has different appearance to the previous part of a common approach.

Also quote your account where the (1957) and Under Petrita'll tell you about (1969) and a time to remember fictionalized autobiography (1978). Trace Otaola mockingly ironic profiles of some of his characters: "It was Don Prudencio Romeral, but it was better to his black pessimism Cipresal name?.

Francisco Arias Solis

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