Ramón Sánchez Ochoa, doctor by the University of Valencia, and member of the doctoral programme "Reason, language and history" has been awarded with the XII Gerardo Diego International Award of Literary Research 2013 for his work "Poetry of the impossible. Gerardo Diego and the music of his time".
It has been decided unanimously by the jury constituted by Ricardo Senabre Sempere, full university professor of Literature Theory of the University of Salamanca; Pilar Palomo Vázquez, full university professor of Spanish Literature of the Complutense University of Madrid; Rosa Navarro Durán, full university professor of Spanish literature of the University of Barcelona; Antonio Sánchez Trigueros, full university professor of Literature Theory of the University of Granada; and Javier Díez de Revenga, full university professor of Spanish Literature of the University of Murcia.
Poet, musician, anthologist, essayist and pioneer of the Generation of '27, the many facets Gerardo Diego (Santander, 1896 - Madrid, 1987) offers to the study are far from draining away. For this reason, the work of Ramón Sánchez Ochoa is a celebration. It is a comparative study that reveals the depth of the pursuit followed by Diego for his poetry to be a parallel and similar expresion to the music of his contemporaries. A pursuit, at least, of the impossible, as the title of the winner work points out, for being two drastically different languages.
The awarded work joins "musicology, aesthetics and philology with a brilliant writing", in words of Ricardo Senabre, president of the jury, when he made known the decision. The poet's older daughter, Elena Diego, executrix of his work, claimed the " deep pleasure" that this award gives her "for paying special attention to another of his father's facets as an intellectual of his time"
The successive summaries by the hand of Ramón Sánchez Ochoa - Gerardo Diego, musician; Fauré or the elliptical poetry; Debussy or the introductory music; Ravel or the sharp music; Falla or the naked music; Esplá or the Levantine metaphore - offer a walk through the poet's informed, unceasing and frustrating effort of joining poetry and music. This essay will let the reader experience a deeper closeness to Gerardo Diego, in his poetic work not only classicist but also ultraist and creationist, the two avant-garde movements of his time. The jury also considers that the winner study broadens one of the most recent spaces of researching: Gerardo Diego, musician.
This award wants to distinguish the essay work about the Spanish poetry in the 20th century, which was the Gerardo Diego's strongest and most faithful passion. Sponsored by the Cantabrian Department of Education, Culture and Sport and the Santander city council, the award entails the publication of the work in "Pre-textos", a publishing company which enjoys great national and international prestige in the Hispanic field.
Last update: 25 de june de 2013 09:33.
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