HUIDOBRO, Vicente. Partial Manuscript of the Unpublished Play Entitled España y Anti-España, Accompanied by a Complete Corrected Typescript of the Same Text. 1935 c. Thirty-six holograph pages in three slim buff-colored stapled tall octavo notebooks, containing the first three-quarters of the manuscript of the unpublished play, "Espana y Anti-Espana." The holograph manuscript breaks off in mid-page with the words of General Franco, "Todos los sacerdotes estan con nostros." ("All the priests are on our side.") The manuscript is accompanied by a corrected carbon typescript of forty-four pages, in which the action proceeds to its conclusion -- in which Death awards the Fascist generals the Orden del Buitre Septicefalo (Order of the Seven Headed Vulture) in honour of the magnificent banquet with which they have provided him. At once a political satire and a monumental drama á la Brecht, the protagonists include the three Fascist generals Franco, Millan and Quiepo as well as the spirit of the great Spanish hero, El Cid (to whose ancestry the family of Huidobro's mother can be traced) and Spain herself, portrayed as a "una estatua hieratica." At the age of 43, Huidobro himself, scion of a very wealth Chilean family and long resident of Europe, fought on the side of the Republic against the forces of Franco, until the point at which the dispiriting outcome of the struggle was all but assured. Huidobro is among the great poets of the Spanish language in the Twentieth Century, to our mind, the greatest poet of Latin America. Virtually no manuscript material of his remains in private hands.

An extraordinary unpublished manuscript

• Category: Extraordinary Books, Manuscripts & Art
• Keywords: LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE · Manuscripts
• Language: Englisch
• Inventory number: 7125LB

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