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Mandragora (disambiguation)

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La Mandrágora (Spanish for The Mandrake

Mandrake

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) was a Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an Surrealist group "officially founded" on 12 July 1938 by Braulio Arenas

Braulio Arenas

Braulio Arenas was a Chilean poet and writer, founder of the surrealist Mandrágora group.- Life :Braulio Arenas lived most of his youth in the north of Chile, moving in his teens to Talca to study...

 (1913-1988), Teófilo Cid

Teófilo Cid

Teófilo Cid was a Chilean poet....

 and Enrique Gómez Correa

Enrique Gómez Correa

Enrique Gómez Correa was a Chilean poet, lawyer and diplomat....

 . The group had met in Talca

Talca

Talca is a city and commune in Chile located about south of Santiago, and is the capital of both Talca Province and Maule Region . As of the 2002 census, the city had a population of 193,755....

 and first started exchanging in 1932 . They published an eponymous review (of which 7 issues were edited at a small scale, the last issue being edited in October 1943 ) and an anthology of poetry, El A, G, C de la Mandrágora, which included works by all founders except Teófilo Cid. Politically, the group supported the Popular Front

Popular Front (Chile)

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Vicente Huidobro

Vicente Huidobro

Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He was an exponent of the artistic movement called Creacionismo , which held that a poet should bring life to the things he or she writes about, rather than just describe them.Huidobro was born into a wealthy...

 (1893-1948), who had formed the Creationist literary movement, had been one of the main intermediaries of Surrealist thought in Chile, through his yearly travels to Paris .
The poet Gonzalo Rojas

Gonzalo Rojas

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 (1917-2011) was also for a short time member of the group, although he harshly disavowed it years laters . Rojas had introduced the young Jorge Cáceres

Jorge Cáceres

Jorge Cáceres was a Chilean poet, painter and dancer....

 to Braulio Arenas in 1938 . Others collaborators to the movement included Cáceres, Ferando Onfray, Gustavo Osorio, Huidobro, Pablo de Rokha

Pablo de Rokha

Pablo de Rokha . His real name was Pablo Díaz Loyola, and was a Chilean poet. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1965....

, the Venezuelan Juan Sánchez Peláez , as well as the painters Eugenio Vidaurrázaga and Mario Urzúa, the musicians Renato Jara, Alejandro Gaete

Alejandro Gaete

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 and Mario Medina

Mario Medina

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, and the artist Ludwig Zeller, among others .

External links

• Website dedicated to the Mandrágora on the University of Chiles website