Rafael Cansinos-Asséns
Rafael Cansinos Asséns | |
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| Born | 24 November 1882 |
| Died | 6 July 1964 (aged 81) |
| Occupations | Poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and translator |
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| Language | Spanish |
Rafael Cansinos Asséns (24 November 1882 – 6 July 1964) was a Spanish poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and translator.
Biography
Cansinos was born in Seville on 24 November 1882. Through his father's paternal line, he is related to the Cansino Family and Rita Hayworth.[1]
Cansinos was a polyglot; he translated The Arabian Nights into Spanish, as well as the works of Dostoyevsky, and the complete works of Goethe for the publisher Aguilar. He was among the contributors of the Madrid-based avant-garde magazine Prometeo.[2]
In the lectures he gave in 1967 at Harvard, Jorge Luis Borges mentioned him as one of his masters, and expressed wonder at the fact that he has been forgotten.
Works
Essays
- El candelabro de los siete brazos Psalmos ("The Seven Arm Candelabra: Psalmos"), 1914
- El divino fracaso ("The divine failure"), 1918
- España y los judíos españoles ("Spain and the Spanish Jews"), 1920
- Salomé en la literatura ("Salomé in literature"), 1920
- Ética y estética de los sexos ("Ethics and aesthetics of the sexes"), 1921
- Los valores eróticos en las religiones: El amor en el Cantar de los Cantares ("Erotic Values in Religions: Love in the Song of Songs"), 1930
- La Copla Andaluza ("La Copla Andaluza"), 1936
- Los judíos en Sefarad ("The Jews in Sepharad"), 1950
- Mahoma y el Korán ("Muhammad and the Koran"), 1954
Compilations
- Antología de poetas persas ("Anthology of Persian poets"),
- Bellezas del Talmud ("Beauties of the Talmud"), 1919
Novels
- La encantadora ("The lovely"), 1916
- El eterno milagro ("The eternal miracle"), 1918
- La madona del carrusel ("The Madonna of the Carousel"), 1920
- En la tierra florida ("In the flowery land"), 1920
- La huelga de los poetas ("The poets' strike"), 1921
- Las luminarias de Hanukah ("The Hanukah Luminaries"), 1924
References
- ↑ ""A Borges le fascinaba el parentesco entre mi padre y Rita Hayworth"". sevilla (in Spanish). 2006-05-21. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
- ↑ "Prometeo (Madrid. 1908)" (in Spanish). Hemeroteca Digital. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
External links
Media related to Rafael Cansinos-Asséns at Wikimedia Commons
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- Arabic–Spanish translators
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- Translators of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Translators of One Thousand and One Nights
- Translators of William Shakespeare
- Writers from Seville