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José María Álvarez, born in Cartagena, Spain in 1942, is a Spanish poet y novelist.
The principal work of Álvarez is Museo de cera (The Wax Museum)[1] which has been a work in progress over many years due the author's endeavouring the completion of a unique and all-encompassing book (un libro único y totalizador). Nevertheless, in the most recent edition Álvarez brings the cycle to a conclusion. José María Álvarez has followed a number of the trends in contemporary Spanish poetry passing from socially aware poetry to a culturalism deriving from his life experience. His protagonist is no revolutionary wishing to change lives, but a bon vivant, disdainer of vulgarity, lover of lost causes.
His poems are often bipartite:
- An introductory quote (allusions to cinema mythography, theatrical dialogugues, fragments of novels, poems, essays, song lyrics, etc.) and
- The poem as such, which attempts to organise chaos, to explain an incomprehensible world.
In 2003, he published his reminiscences Los decorados del olvido (The stage sets of oblivion) [2], a poetic work reflecting, generally in a sarcastic tone, on sex and society.
References[edit]
- ^ Álvarez, José María (Álvarez2002), Museo de cera, Seventh Edition, Editorial Renacimiento, ISBN 8484720365, ISBN 9788484720362, 879 pp, http://books.google.ie/books?id=pf1A8uB-eWoC
- ^ Álvarez, José María (Álvarez2004), Los decorados del olvido, Editorial Renacimiento ISBN 9788484721406
External Links (in Spanish)[edit]
- CTpedia
- His personal Web Page
- Poems of José María Álvarez
- José María Álvarez in Cisne Negro (The Black Swan)
- José María Álvarez, Sobre Shakespeare (On Shakespeare) (El Gaviero Ediciones, Almería, 2005).