Guillermo Díaz-Plaja Explained

Guillermo Diaz-Plaja
Birth Name:Guillermo Diaz-Plaja Contestí
Birth Date:24 May 1909
Birth Place:Manresa, Spain
Death Place:Barcelona, Spain
Nationality:Spanish
Occupation:Literary critic, historian, essayist, philologist, poet
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Office:Seat P of the Real Academia Española
Term Start:5 November 1967
Term End:27 July 1984
Predecessor:José Martínez Ruiz
Successor:Julio Caro Baroja

Guillermo Diaz-Plaja Contestí (24 May 1909 – 27 July 1984) was a Spanish literary critic, historian, essayist, and poet.

Biography

Guillermo Díaz Plaja was born in Manresa,[1] the son of an army officer, on 25 May 1909.[2] A few weeks later, the family moved to Barcelona. Here he studied at the Colegio de Escuelas Pías, and in Girona, where he spent his adolescence, with the Marist Brothers. He began his studies of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Barcelona when he was living in Lleida, taking the exams as an external student in the first year. Since 1927, by which time he was already established in the city of Barcelona, he was an official student.[3] His university colleagues included Miquel Batllori, Carlos Clavería, Juan Ramón Masoliver and Ana Maria Saavedra. He graduated in 1930 with academic excellence, and went to Madrid the following year to get a doctorate at the Central University, where he was a disciple of, among other teachers, Ramón Menéndez Pidal.[4]

In 1932 he started his career as a teacher at the Institut Escola de Barcelona.[5] At just 26 years old, he won the National Prize for Literature for Introducción al estudio del Romanticismo español (Madrid, Espasa Calpe, 1936)[6] [1] and in 1961 the City of Barcelona essay prize, for Viatge a l'Atlàntida i retorn a Ítaca (Barcelona, Destino, 1962).[7] He was professor at the Jaime Balmes Institute since 1935[8] and professor at the University School of Business Studies of the University of Barcelona from 1972 until his retirement in 1979.[9]

He was professor at the San Jorge Superior School of Fine Arts and at the Barcelona Provincial Council's School of Commerce, also in that city.[10] He directed the Barcelona Theater Institute from 1939 to 1970 and the Spanish National Book Institute from 1966 to 1970.[11] He belonged to the CSIC,[11] the Hispanic Society,[12] the Royal Spanish Academy[13] and the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona,[11] as well as other Spanish and foreign institutions. He chaired the Association of Literary Critics[14] and the Association of Spanish Writers and Artists from 1979 until 1984.[15] He was a Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universities of San Marcos in Peru (1973), of Cuyo in Argentina (1981),[13] and of Strasbourg (1982).[13] He wrote more than two hundred works, including popular books, didactics, poetry books, essays and anthologies.

His work of research focused on various stages in the history of literature, with studies on Modernism, Romanticism and Baroque.[13] [16] He analyzed the work of relevant authors of Spanish poetry, such as Federico García Lorca, Juan Ramón Jiménez and Valle Inclán.[17] [18] His works on the figure of Eugenio d'Ors deserve special attention. Other literary activities included the creation of anthologies,[19] magazine management, text editing and the coordination of works. In the latter field, his Historia general de las literaturas hispánicas stands out. In this work the studies on the various Spanish literatures carried out by the most accredited specialists are integrated. His didactic work, carried out in universities and from textbooks, trained several generations of Spanish and Hispanic students.

Parallel to his literary studies, he worked in four other major fields: first, there are his autobiographical works, such as his Memoria de una generación destruid (1966);[13] second, the issues on the current cultural scene, of journalistic type; thirdly, travel literature (Díaz-Plaja considered travelling "a way of getting knowledge of the world, of trying to capture, under the most superficial chromaticisms, the common roots on which humanity is based"),[20] made up of essays on countries from the five continents and, finally, poetry. Regarding his work in the Catalan language,[21] his early studies on cinema or the avant-garde,[22] his poetic work, and his role as a bridge in the dialogue of Spanish cultures deserve special attention.

Major works

History of literature

Editing

Poetry

Essays

Anthologies

Autobiographical writings

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Book: Marcelino Jiménez León · . El Fondo Guillermo Díaz-Plaja: perspectivas de un legado . 2021 . Ediciones Octaedro . 9788418615306 . 6 December 2021.
  2. José Cruset (1970): pp. 19-20.
  3. José Cruset (1970): pp. 23, 26 y 29.
  4. José Cruset (1970): pp. 32-33.
  5. Book: Guillermo Díaz-Plaja . La Obra de Guillermo Díaz-Plaja a través de la crítica en las bodas de plata del autor con el libro, 1928-1953 . 1954 . Edición de los Amigos para los Amigos . 127 . 6 December 2021.
  6. Book: Anales ... Volumes 37-38 . 1953 . Academia Nacional de Artes y Letras (Cuba), Rafael Montoro . 145 . 6 December 2021.
  7. Book: Cruset . José . Díaz-Plaja . Guillermo . Guillermo Diaz-Plaja . 1970 . EPESA . 49 .
  8. Book: Francisco Gracia Alonso, Josep Maria Fullola Pericot . El sueño de una generación el crucero universitario por el Mediterráneo de 1933 . 2006 . Universidad de Barcelona . 9788483384831 . 64 . 6 December 2021.
  9. Web site: Cronología . www.guillermodiazplaja.com . 6 December 2021.
  10. Book: Bibliografía hispánica Volume 3, Part 1 . 1944 . Instituto Nacional del Libro Español . 306 . 6 December 2021.
  11. Book: Gutiérrez Palacio . Javier . De Azorín a Umbral un siglo de periodismo literario español . 2009 . Netbiblo . 9788497452212 . 904 . 6 December 2021.
  12. Book: Alvaro Francisco . El espectador y la critica el teatro en España 1984 . 1984 . 276 . 6 December 2021.
  13. Book: José Gerardo Manrique de Lara . Guillermo Díaz-Plaja . 1982 . Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Promoción del Libro y la Cinematografía . 16–17 . 9788474832617 . 6 December 2021.
  14. Book: Instituto Nacional del Libro Español . El Libro español Issues 311-318 . 1983 . Instituto Nacional del Libro Español . 19 . 6 December 2021.
  15. Web site: Guillermo Díaz-Plaja . www.liberediciones.com . 6 December 2021.
  16. Book: Cruset . José . Díaz-Plaja . Guillermo . Guillermo Diaz-Plaja . 1970 . EPESA . 6 December 2021.
  17. Web site: Gomez . Joel . Federico García Lorca y su tesoro gallego . 5 June 2013 . La Voz de Galicia . 7 November 2021.
  18. Web site: Francisco R. Pastoriza . Francisco . Poesías de Ramón María del Valle-Inclán en un solo volumen . 31 August 2017 . Periodistas . 7 November 2021.
  19. Web site: Guillermo Diaz Plaja . New York Times . 30 July 1984. 7 November 2021.
  20. Book: Ferreira . César . Edgardo Rivera Martínez nuevas lecturas . 2006 . 291. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos . 9789972463143 . 6 December 2021.
  21. Book: Cruset . José . Guillermo Diaz-Plaja . 1970 . ESPESA . 50 . 6 December 2021.
  22. Book: Fanes. Felix. Dalí. Salvador. Salvador Dalí The Construction of the Image, 1925-1930. Yale University Press. 2007. 9780300091793.

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