César Muñoz Arconada Explained

César Muñoz Arconada (5 December 1898 – 10 March 1964), who signed his work as César M. Arconada, was a Spanish writer, poet, journalist and translator.

Early life

Arconada's father was a journalist and a post official. From January 1920 to March 1923, he often collaborated in Diario Palentino, and from 1923 in Alfar de Coruña.

Arconada became a critic of music and cinema and wrote poetry alongside, where he already leaned towards social concerns, more frequent in his future writing.[1] He became editor-in-chief of the magazine La Gaceta Literaria in 1927, the main medium of the Generation of '27, where his collaboration (until January 1931) was frequent and outstanding.[2]

Second Republic

In 1931 he joined the Spanish Communist Party and is active in the social-realist trend in Spain. He collaborated, Nueva Cultura, Leviatán, Frente Literario and Mundo Obrero and Octubre, which he co-edited with Rafael Alberti.[3] He published two novels within the framework of the so-called socialist realism: namely Los pobres contra los ricos and Reparto de tierras (1934); in both he showed the situation of the Spanish countryside in a period of revolutionary peak. In 1938 he wrote another novel, Río Tajo, which received the National Prize for Literature, but which would only be published in Moscow in 1970 and in Spain in 1978, in which he praised the Popular Front during the Spanish Civil War.[4]

Exile and later life

Upon the defeat of the Second Spanish Republic in 1939, he went into exile in Moscow. There he became an enthusiastic promoter of Spanish literature, mainly of the Spanish Golden Age, as with Cervantes' La gitanilla, which he adapted and succeeded in the Gypsy Theater of Moscow. He was director of the Spanish-language edition of the Soviet Literary magazine and was connected to the Publishing Progress of Foreign Languages. He wrote a minor play Manuela Sánchez (se puso en escena en algún teatro y fue transmitida en fragmentos por Radio Moscú). The Great Soviet Encyclopedia noted that he was influenced by Russian writers such as Maxim Gorky, Konstantin Fedin and others. He translated into Spanish, with Fyodor Keljin, the work Talk about the soldier Igor and a series of poems by Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov and Nikolai Nekrasov. He also wrote two collections of short stories, namely España es invencible (1941) and Cuentos de Madrid (1942), some plays and the extended praise poem Dolores (1945).[5]

He married a young exile María Cánovas, from the Balearic Islands, bilingual and inclined to poetry, which made her a very suitable collaborator for Arconada.[6]

Works

Poetry

Essays non-narrative prose

Narrative prose

Theatre

Translation

Compilation

Not published

Notes and References

  1. Soguero García, Francisco: «Entre las sombras: César M. Arconada y la crítica cinematográfica», en Mechthild Albert (ed): Vanguardia española e intermedialidad. Artes escénicas, cine y radio, Madrid/Frankfurt am Main, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2005, p. 457-477
  2. Gonzalo Santonja, «César M. Arconada. Bio-bibliografía», Publicaciones de la Institución Tello Téllez de Meneses, núm. 47, Palencia, 1982
  3. Web site: César Muñoz Arconada. .
  4. Web site: Autores - Editorial Renacimiento. www.editorialrenacimiento.com.
  5. Kharitónova, Natalia: «El exilio militante de César Arconada», en Escritores, editoriales y revistas del exilio republicano, Sevilla, Renacimiento, 2006, p. 67-70.
  6. García Velasco . Marcelino . 2018 . “Andanzas por la nueva China”, de César Muñoz Arconada . Publicaciones de la Institución Tello Téllez de Meneses . 89 . 271–278 . 0210-7317.

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