His real name was Eugenio Hernández, born in Caracas in 1938, Eugenio Montejo died on Thursday, June 5, at night, in the Centro Policlinico Valencia (La Viña) where he had been detained since last week to cancer. We had a chance to meet in September 2004 during the making of the Book Fair UNICA III in Maracaibo, and today we mourn his passing away, although we know that his work and his legacy to the Venezuelan and Latin American literature transcend throughout the years. Venezuelan poet and essayist, was characterized by the rich textual variety and great mastery of form, becoming a great representative of the South American poetry. Published, among other books: "Choose" in 1967, "Death and Memory in 1972," Some Words "in 1977," Terredad in 1978, "Tropic absolute" in 1982, "The white workshop in 1983, "The Notebook Coll Blas in 1981 and" Alphabet of the World "in 1986. It was also the author of important essays such as" The oblique window in 1974. His poetry, that they said in their own words "was a melodious play chess with God alone" will last much longer than men, will shine even further than the flame of incandescent vela.Ensayista most prolific first-class poet, Montejo was the subject of multiple awards its international work. At the national level, received the National Prize for Literature in 1998. Later, he was awarded the Octavio Paz Prize for Poetry and Essay awarded by the Mexican government, one of the most important awards of the literary world began to write poems latinoamericano.Se long, in which reigns a spirit of joy for life on earth, who coined a new term to the Castilian language: terredad.Su latest book of poems, type Fable (2006) was published in Spain and Mexico, but has not been reproduced editorially in Venezuela, like his works completas.Fue recognized as a great reader, speaker and exhibitor, as well as having cultivated a taste for foreign languages. He earned a reputation for being able to speak in a Castilian considered one of the most pulcros.Quizás his work achieved the highest importance outside Venezuela's borders with the words of a poem that makes him the actor Sean Penn in the film 21 Grams, Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, "The earth turned to bring us / turned on itself and in us to come together at last this dream, "was an extract of the verses that went around the world via the screen grande.Montejo in 2002 told the newspaper El Pais in Spain that the words of love" were a little tired. The love poem raises the risk of the nothingness and the commonplace. " Maybe that's why he took refuge in the sensuality of the ways to describe the universal feeling, starting from the point of "not always what interests Two other interests. "Papyrus was his love the greatest expression of that love touches, senses and breathes in the fusion of bodies" that are far to strange and unfamiliar places. "postvanguardismo The representative also reflected in its poetry his nostalgia for the transition from agrarian economy to Venezuelan oil. "tall are the buildings that no longer see anything my children," reads one of his verses that anticipates the conclusion that we live in "the era of post- Gods and after the city. "Land, the same that turned to bring it to the memory and hearts of millions of fans of his lyrics will intervene to preserve a legacy. Its passage by the planet closed a chapter, but his words remain now as ever remind us "how many lives we save the earth still, when you wake up tomorrow." http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio_Montejo http://www.epdlp.com/escritor.php?id=2058 http://www.elpais.com/articulo/ narrativa/MONTEJO/_EUGENIO/Siempre/necesitamos/decir/nuevo/palabras/amor/elpbabnar/20020622elpbabnar_20/Tes / http://literanova.eduardocasanova.com/index.php/2007/08/22/eugenio_montejo_bitacora_del_alma http : / / www.literaturas.com / EMontejoLC.htm http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smpt/1844710335.htm
