Alfredo Armas Alfonzo

Alfredo Armas Alfonzo

Infobox Person
name= Alfredo Armas Alfonzo


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dead=dead
birth_date= birth date|1921|8|6|mf=y
birth_place= Clarines, Anzoátegui, Venezuela
death_date= 1990



death_place= Caracas, Venezuela

Alfredo Armas Alfonzo (August 6, 1921 in Clarines, Anzoátegui, Venezuela, - 1990 in Caracas, Venezuela) was a Venezuelan writer, critic, editor and historian, well known throughout Latin America. He was a master of the modern fable, a precursor of what soon would be called magical realism.

Alfonzo grew up in Puerto Píritu, and later attended the first classes at the new journalism school of the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. He worked for the Postal Service in Barcelona, Venezuela and petroleum companies in new towns established at the orient of Venezuela, and was the eastern correspondent for the Caracas newspaper El Nacional. He founded the literary magazine, Revista Literaria Jagüey and organized and presided over the first conference of the Venezuelan Journalists Association.

Alfonzo continued to write for various newspapers and to found and direct new magazines, while working for first the government and then Creole Petroleum Corporation. In his fiction he developed an imaginative style, and he published "Los Cielos de la Muerte" in 1949. In 1962 he resigned from Creole Petroleum and went to work for the Universidad de Oriente. In 1969 he received the National Prize for Literature. And in 1970-71 he undertook the job as vice-president of the National Institute of Culture and Bellas Artes (INCIBA). In 1975 he was appointed a member of the organizing Commission of the National Council of Culture (CONAC).

In 1986, in Cumaná, the Universidad de Oriente conferred on Alfonzo an honorary Doctorate in Humanities, in recognition of his exemplary literary work, and his advocation of the value of popular culture and folklore.

Alfonzo’s work are known for his own impressionistic quality where the reader is exposed to Alfonzo’s world only through brief and fragmentary windows.His characters were not the great and powerful, but were modest persons typically rural and demonstrating a “Venezuelan” character. He was a master of dialog that reflected the vagaries of the human mind, and memory, without descending into pure stream of consciousness. Some consider "El Osario de Dios" his greatest, or perhaps most groundbreaking, book.

Published works

* Los cielos de la muerte (1949)
* La cresta del cangrejo (1951)
* Tramojo (1953)
* Isla de pueblos (1954)
* Los lamederos del diablo (1956)
* Como el polvo (1967)
* PTC, Puerto Sucre vía San Cristóbal (1967)
* La parada de Maimós (1968)
* El Osario de Dios (1969)
* Los cielos de la muerte (1970)
* Qué de recuerdos, Venezuela (1971)
* Con los brazos abiertos (1971)
* Agostos y otros difuntos (1972)
* Cualquier ocaso (1972)
* Siete güiripas para Don Hilario (1973)
* Cien maúseres, ninguna muerte y una sola amapola (1975)
* Cuentos (1976)
* Las palabras de Guanape (1976)
* La tierra de Venezuela y los cielos de sus santos (1977)
* Angelaciones (1979)
* Uno ninguno (1980)
* Hierra (1980)
* El Tigre: la raíz cercana de la rosa (1980)
* Clarines bien lejos (1981)
* Con el corazón en la boca (1981)
* Hierba (1983)
* Diseño Gráfico en Venezuela (1985)
* Este resto de llanto que me queda (1987)
* Cada espina (1989)
* Los desiertos del ángel (1990)

References

* Bello, Arnaldo Acosta, "et. al" (2002) " Alfredo Armas Alfonzo: ante la crítica" Monte Ávila Editores Latinoamericana, Fundación Alfredo Armas Alfonzo, Caracas, Venezuela, ISBN 9800111115 , in Spanish
* Gaspar, Wilmans (2003) "La crónica de ficción literaria en Alfredo Armas Alfonzo" Fondo Editorial del Caribe, Dirección General Sectorial de Literatura, CONAC, Anzoátegui, Venezuela, ISBN 9806540190 , in Spanish
* Alegre, Atanasio (1987) "Una Valoración de Alfredo Armas Alfonzo" Centro de Actividades Literarias "José Antonio Sucre", Cunamá, Estado Sucre, Venezuela, ISBN 9806047303 , in Spanish

External links

* [http://www.eluniversal.com/verbigracia/memoria/N208/ultima.shtml Alfredo Armas Alfonzo honrado por la crítica]


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