Tag: Jules Supervielle
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Portrait of French-Uruguayan poet Jules Supervielle, Montevideo, 1944
Jules Supervielle (1884-1960) was a French writer and poet who was born in Montevideo and grew up between Uruguay and France. He started publishing poetry collections (Débarcadères, Gravitations), novels, short stories and plays in the early 1920s. He spent the war years in Uruguay, writing and translating, and gaining in recognition. In 1946 he returned…
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About, Part 8: Uruguay, Land of Cultural Exchange
Uruguayan poet, editor and arts patron Susana Soca in front of her portrait by Picasso, photo André Ostier, Paris, 1947, Coll. J. Alvarez Márquez In the 1940s, Uruguay was sufficiently open, prosperous and democratic to be able to accept and to integrate these new citizens and their avant-garde ideas. Their new ideas were in sync…