Oliverio Girondo

'''Oliverio Girondo''' Oliverio Girondo (August 17, 1891 – January 24, 1967) was an Argentine poet. He was born in Buenos Aires to a relatively wealthy family, enabling him from a young age to travel to Europe, where he studied in both Paris and England. During the 1920s, he was involved with the avant-garde journal Martín Fierro, which ushered in the arrival of ultraism, the first of the vanguardist movements to settle in Argentina. His first poems, full of color and irony, surpass the simple admiration of beauty in nature which was then a common theme, opting instead for a fuller and more interesting topic: a sort of celebration of living cosmopolitan and urbane, both praising such a lifestyle and criticizing some of the customs of its society.

Girondo was contemporary to Jorge Luis Borges, Raúl González Tuñón and Macedonio Fernández and Norah Lange (whom he married in 1943) whom he met at a lunch banquet in 1926 held in honor of Ricardo Güiraldes. Of these authors, all also involved in the vanguardia (avant gardism) of Argentina, most identified with the Florida group in the somewhat farcical literary hostility between that group and another called Grupo Boedo. Girondo was one of the most enthusiastic animators of the ultraist movement, exerting influence over many poets of the next generation, among them Enrique Molina with whom he translated the work of Arthur Rimbaud “Una temporada en el infierno.”

Other notable peers include Pablo Neruda and Federico García Lorca with whom he began lasting friendships in 1934, era when both were to be found in Buenos Aires, capital city of Argentina. Around the year 1950 he began painting in the style of surrealism, but he never published or sold any of these works. He was buried in La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Noche tótem. / by Girondo, Oliverio

    Published 2013
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    Antología. / by Girondo, Oliverio

    Published 2005
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    Persuasion de los días - en la masmedula / by Girondo, Oliverio

    Published 1998
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    Veite poemas para ser leidos en el tranvia. Calcomanias. Espantapajaros. / by Girondo, Oliverio

    Published 1966
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    Veinte poemas para ser leídos en el tranvía ; Calcomanías ; Espantapájaros / by Girondo, Oliverio, 1891-1967

    Published 1981
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    Espantapájaros : (al alcance de todos) / by Girondo, Oliverio 1891-1967

    Published 1932
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    Obras completas / by Girondo, Oliverio 1891-1967

    Published 1968
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    En la masmédula / by Girondo, Oliverio, 1891-1967

    Published 1956
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    Obras completas / by Girondo, Oliverio, 1891-1967

    Published 1968
    Book
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    Veinte poemas para ser leídos en el tranvía. Calcomanías. Espantapájaros / by Girondo, Oliverio, 1891-1967

    Published 1966
    Book
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    Veinte poemas para ser leídos en el tranvía. Calcomanías / by Girondo, Oliverio, 1891-1967

    Published 2014
    Book
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    Antología / by Girondo, Oliverio, 1891-1967

    Published 1986
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    Noche tótem / by Girondo, Oliverio 1891-1967

    Published 2000
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    Textos selectos. / by Girondo, Oliverio, 1861-1967

    Published 2014
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    Espantapajaros y otras obras. / by Girondo, Oliverio, 1861-1967

    Published 1981
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    En la masmédula / by Girondo, Oliverio, 1891-1965

    Published 1956
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    Persuación de los días / by Girondo, Oliverio, 1891-1965

    Published 1942
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    Interlunio / by Girondo, Oliverio, 1891-1965

    Published 1937
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    20 poemas para ser leídos en el tranvía / by Girondo, Oliverio, 1891-1965

    Published 1922
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