He got another award with his story " Berenice" in the Story Contest of the University of Valle, while his story " The Teeth of Little Red Riding Hood" won the second place of the Latin American Story Contest organized by the Caracas Image Magazine. In 1969 he also started to write cinema reviews for newspapers, for example in the Cali newspaper El País, in Occidente and El Pueblo. He abandoned the university in 1971 to join the Cali Theatre Company (Teatro Experimental de Cali) as an actor, and there he met the famous Colombian director Enrique Buenaventura. His last work would make him win the First Students' Theatre Festival of the Theatre Department of University of Valle.
#Descargar el atravesado andres caicedo pdf skin
A year later he directed the play " The Bald Soprano" by Eugène Ionesco and he wrote " The End of the Vacations", " Welcoming the New Student", " The Sea", " The Imbeciles are also Witnesses" and " The Skin of the Other Hero". In 1966, he wrote his first play, " Las curiosas conciencias" (Curious Minds) and his first story, " Infection". From Berchmans he was expelled to go to Colegio San Luis in 1966, again expelled and finally he could finish his high school in Colegio Camacho Perea in 1968.Īs with his passion for literature, Caicedo liked cinema and stage. However, his academic and discipline was rather the same, a reason to be transferred again to Cali, this time to Colegio Berchmans, an institution that would influence his works. Because of his bad behavior in the school in Cali, he was transferred to the Colegio Calasanz in Medellín in 1964 and this was the year of his first story: " El Silencio" (The Silence). By that time Andrés was studying in Colegio del Pilar, after he was in Colegio Pio XII, a " very bad Franciscan establishment" as he said years after. His brother Francisco José was born in 1958, but died three years later. However his work is becoming known thanks to the influence of his works in new writer generations such as Rafael Chaparro, Efraim Medina Reyes, Manuel Giraldo, Octavio Escobar and Ricardo Abdahllah.Īndrés Caicedo was the youngest son and only male of Carlos Alberto Caicedo and Nellie Estella.
Despite his fame in Colombia, Caicedo is little known in Latin America, maybe for his early death.
#Descargar el atravesado andres caicedo pdf movie
Therefore, some scholars give importance to his work as an alternative in Latin America to prominent figures such as Gabriel García Márquez, especially through the research of the Chilean journalist, writer and movie critic Alberto Fuguet who called Caicedo " The first enemy of Macondo". Contrary to the school of magic realism, the work of Caicedo is grounded completely in social reality. Ĭaicedo's work has as its context the urban world and its social conflicts, especially those of young people. Some sources say that he used to say that to live more than 25 years was a shame and it is seen as the main reason of his suicide on March 4, 1977, when he was that age. In 1970 he won the First Literary Contents of Caracas with his work " Los dientes de caperucita" (The Teeth of Little Red Riding Hood) that opened the doors of national recognition for him. Caicedo led different cultural movements in the city like the literary group " Los Dialogantes" (Those who speak), the Cinema Club of Cali and the " Ojo con el Cine" Magazine (Attention to the Cinema). Despite his premature death, his works are considered to be some of the most original produced in Colombia. Luis Andrés Caicedo Estela (29 September 1951 – 4 March 1977) was a Colombian writer born in Cali, the city where he would spend most of his life.
Andrés Caicedo in a picture of Eduardo Carvajal.
0 kommentar(er)
