Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio (Rome, 4th December, 1927) is a spanish writer and essayist, considered one of the bests authors of the spanish narrative in the 50′s. He has been a member of the Círculo Lingüístico de Madrid and has won a Cervantes Prize. He is centred in the realistic and fantastic literature.
His first work was ‘Industrias y andanzas de Alfanhuí‘ (1951). This fantastic novel is about a child who creates an unintelligible alphabet and imagines his own reality. This new world is far different from the real one, and rules and punishment don’t exist inside it.
‘El Jarama‘(1955) is one of the most important novels on the postwar period, and could be considered his most important work. In it, he develops his realistic facet, confronted with the fantastic view given in ’Industrias y andanzas de Alfanhuí’. In ‘El Jarama‘, Sánchez Ferlosio narrates sixteen hours of a group of friends life. At the end of the day, something unexpected breaks the routine that dominated the plot: one of the girls in the group drowns in the river Jarama. This incident puts an end to the monotony of the novel up to this moment, and it makes the reader think of how unstable and fragile life is, and how easily life can break our schemes and interrupt our calm.
Apart from this very important novels, Ferlosio has also written some tales, such as ‘Y el corazón caliente’ (1961) and ‘Dientes, pólvora, febrero’ (1961). He abandoned the novelistic genre for a while, so as to concentrate on his essays. His first one was ’Personas y animales en una fiesta de bautizo’ (1966).
Later on, his come back to the novel was testified by ‘El testimonio de Yarfoz‘ (1986).
Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio is against the intellectual property. He defends that a good author, when writing, is deciding when he wants to work, where, and on which subject, and he is paid for that. To him, the aim of a good writer is to expand his knowledge and opinion as far as possible and not to collect as much money as he can. He does not agree with the CEDRO cooperative, as to him it is only seeking economical benefits.
REFERENCES
- ‘El autor y la autoría en el mundo digital’ (2009, February, 15). Retrieved 17:33, October 1, 2009 from http://artesadigital.blogspot.com/2009/02/el-autor-y-la-autoria-en-el-mundo.html
- Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio (2009, September, 21) in Wikipedia, The free enciclopedia. Retrieved 17:23, October 5, 2009 from http://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rafael_S%C3%A1nchez_Ferlosio&oldid=29913979.
http://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Especial:Citar&page=Rafael_S%C3%A1nchez_Ferlosio&id=29913979 - Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio. Retrieved 17:32, October 5, 2009 from http://www.epdlp.com/escritor.php?id=2265
- Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio on Ediciones Destino. Retrieved 18:03, October 5, 2009 from http://www.edestino.es/FichaAutor.aspx?IdPack=3&IdPildora=EXT32
