Alfredo Armas Alfonzo
Alfredo Armas | |
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Clarines, Venezuela | |
Died | 9 November 1990 |
Occupation(s) | writer, critic, editor, historian |
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Alfredo Armas Alfonzo (6 August 1921 in
Alfonzo grew up in the
Alfonzo continued to write for various newspapers and to found and direct new magazines, while working for first the government and then
In 1986, in Cumaná, the Universidad de Oriente conferred on Alfonzo an honorary Doctorate in Humanities, in recognition of his exemplary literary work, and his advocation of the value of popular culture and folklore.
Alfonzo's work are known for his own impressionistic quality where the reader is exposed to Alfonzo's world only through brief and fragmentary windows. His characters were not the great and powerful, but were modest persons typically rural and demonstrating a "Venezuelan" character. He was a master of dialog that reflected the vagaries of the human mind, and memory, without descending into pure
Published works
- Los cielos de la muerte (1949)
- La cresta del cangrejo (1951)
- Tramojo (1953)
- Isla de pueblos (1954)
- Los lamederos del diablo (1956)
- Como el polvo (1967)
- PTC, Puerto Sucre vía San Cristóbal (1967)
- La parada de Maimós (1968)
- El Osario de Dios (1969)
- Los cielos de la muerte (1970)
- Qué de recuerdos, Venezuela (1971)
- Con los brazos abiertos (1971)
- Agostos y otros difuntos (1972)
- Cualquier ocaso (1972)
- Siete güiripas para Don Hilario (1973)
- Cien maúseres, ninguna muerte y una sola amapola (1975)
- Cuentos (1976)
- Las palabras de Guanape (1976)
- La tierra de Venezuela y los cielos de sus santos (1977)
- Angelaciones (1979)
- Uno ninguno (1980)
- Hierra (1980)
- El Tigre: la raíz cercana de la rosa (1980)
- Clarines bien lejos (1981)
- Con el corazón en la boca (1981)
- Hierba (1983)
- Diseño Gráfico en Venezuela (1985)
- Este resto de llanto que me queda (1987)
- Cada espina (1989)
- Los desiertos del ángel (1990)
References
- Bello, Arnaldo Acosta, et al. (2002) Alfredo Armas Alfonzo: ante la crítica Monte Ávila Editores Latinoamericana, Fundación Alfredo Armas Alfonzo, Caracas, Venezuela, ISBN 980-01-1111-5, in Spanish
- Gaspar, Wilmans (2003) La crónica de ficción literaria en Alfredo Armas Alfonzo Fondo Editorial del Caribe, Dirección General Sectorial de Literatura, CONAC, Anzoátegui, Venezuela, ISBN 980-6540-19-0, in Spanish
- Alegre, Atanasio (1987) Una Valoración de Alfredo Armas Alfonzo Centro de Actividades Literarias "José Antonio Sucre", Cunamá, Estado Sucre, Venezuela, ISBN 980-6047-30-3, in Spanish