Antonio Ferres
Antonio Ferres Bugeda (1 March 1924[1] – 11 April 2020) was a Spanish writer and poet, belonging to the so-called Generación del Cincuenta (Generation of the '50s). Several of his works were banned in Spain. Many of his works have been translated into several languages.
Career
Ferres was born in Madrid. Many of the writers who belong to the Generation of the 1950s (so called because they debuted in the 1950s) excel through social-realistic prose. Ferres' debut novel La piqueta (The Pickaxe) was published in 1959. When his subsequent novel Los vencidos (The Conquered, 1960) was banned by the Spanish censor, Ferres had the novel published abroad. The publication of Ferres' novel Al regreso del Boiras (The Return of the Boiras, 1961) was also banned in Spain because it addressed the repression of the Franco regime. In 1964 Ferres decided to leave Spain to write freely about his native country. From 1965 to 1976, he was a lecturer and professor of literary studies at various universities in the United States and Mexico. Ferres returned to Spain after the death of the dictator Franco in 1976. In his career, Ferres won the Prize Sésame for his story Cine de barrio (The neighborhood cinema, 1956), the Prize of the city of Barcelona for his novel Con las manos vacías (Empty hands, 1964) and the Prize for poetry of the city of Madrid for the collection of poems La inmensa llanura no creada (The immense uncreated plain, 2000).
Bibliography
Fiction
- La piqueta (Barcelona : Destino, 1959)
- Los vencidos (1960). First Spanish edition was published in France (Paris : Librairie du Globe, 1965). Before that time the roman was only available in Italian available (I vinti) (Milano : Feltrinelli, 1962)
- Al regreso del Boiras (1961). First Spanish edition in Venezuela (Caracas : Casuz, 1975)
- Con las manos vacías (Barcelona : Seix Barral, 1964)
- En el segundo hemisferio (Barcelona : Seix Barral, 1970)
- Ocho, siete, seis (Barcelona : Seix Barral, 1972)
- En los claros ojos de John (Madrid : Ediciones del Centro, 1975)
- El colibrí con su larga lengua y otras historias (Bilbao : Zero, 1977)
- Los años triunfales (Bilbao : Albia, 1978)
- El gran gozo… (Barcelona : Planeta, 1979)
- La vorágine automática (Madrid : Orígenes, 1982)
- Cuentos (Madrid : Alianza, 1983)
- La muerte reincidente (Barcelona : Plaza & Janés, 1990)
- Los confines del reino (Valencia : Pre-Textos, 1997)
- Crónica de amor de un fabricante de perfumes (Madrid : Gadir, 2006)
- El caballo y el hombre y otros relatos (Madrid : Gadir, 2008)
- El otro universo (Madrid : Gadir, 2010)
- El color amaranto : cuentos completos (Madrid : Gadir, 2017)
Reports
- Caminando por las Hurdes (with Armando López Salinas) (Barcelona : Seix Barral, 1960)
- Tierra de olivos (Barcelona : Seix Barral, 1964)
- Mirada sobre Madrid (Madrid : Península, 1967)
Poetry
- La inmensa llanura no creada (Madrid : Endymion, 2000)
- La desolada llanura (Madrid : Gadir, 2005)
- París y otras ciudades encontradas (Madrid : Gadir, 2010)
- La urraca y los días iluminados (Madrid : Gadir, 2012)
- El libro de los cambios y las hojas (Madrid : Gadir, 2013)
Theatre
- El torito negro (Madrid : Anaya, 1965)
Autobiography
- Memorias de un hombre perdido (Madrid : Debate, 2002)
- Madrid revisitado (met Gloria Fernández Sánchez) (Sevilla : Punto Rojo, 2018)
Other
- Literatura española del último exilio (met José Ortega) (New York : Gordian Press, 1975)
- Letras hispanoamericanas de nuestro tiempo (met José Ortega) (Madrid : Porrúa Turanzas, 1976)
- Francisco Peinado : bajo los ángeles (met Alfonso Grosso) (Madrid : Rayuela, 1978)
About Antonio Ferres
- Rosalina Rovira, Dos expresiones distintas en la novelística contemporánea española : Sender y Ferrés (Iowa City : University of Iowa, 1972)
- José Ortega, La nueva narrativa española : Antonio Ferres y Martínez-Menchén, novelistas de la soledad (Caracas : Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Centro de Investigaciones Literarias, 1973)
- Francisco García Olmedo, Buscando a Antonio Ferres (Madrid : Gadir, 2015)
References
- "Antonio Ferres, vida y obra de un vencido".
- Olmedo, Francisco García (April 13, 2020). "Antonio Ferres en su encierro". EL PAÍS.