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In summer 2009, Manchester University Press Publishing has published the work of Carmen Conde "While men die" with introduction, critical analysis, notes and vocabulary by the teacher at the University of Nottingham Jean Andrews, who had made Further studies of the author.
To perform this critical edition, Professor Andrews had visited the facilities of Trustees Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver, to consult the original documents preserved.
The poems are in Spanish, and English commentary.
The publisher has included this amount in Texts Hispanics collection, which included authors such as García Márquez, García Lorca, Neruda and Lope de Vega.
It has a print run was 5,000 copies.
The Civil War deeply marked Carmen Conde, leading him to write several poetic prose works were not published until much later.
Among them, the series of prose poems entitled While the men die and the dead children of war (1937-1939).
The work, the Board retains the manuscript Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver, was written during the time spent in Valencia Carmen Conde, in the midst of war.
Some of the poems were published in 1937, so did the Barcelona Company magazine in three issues of that year, and the newspaper La Verdad de Murcia.
In 1944, five poems appeared in the Mediterranean: script for Literature, published by the University of Valencia, and another eight in the magazine Garcilaso, the following year.
But the complete collection was made for the first time outside Spain, in 1953, collected under the first title, by the Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino of Milan, in the care of Juana Granados.
In Spain it was not until the publication of volume poetry of Carmen Conde (1929-1966), Emilio Miró care, which includes these poems of war.
Although written as a result of that specific experience, while men die is a timeless work and extrapolated to any war.
As explained by the author herself:
While the men killed was written in a time of intense sorrow for what the war destroyed and continue to destroy.
No specific men, but all men are crying here with the deep sorrow felt by a woman before the inscrutable designs that allow the horror he lived the confident smile.
The poems to the children killed in the war, contained in this book, I was torn from the depths of despair involved with yet.
All pain is useless, I knew then and I know better now.
And yet, say out loud how much you're suffering from what seems inevitable that blurs all boundaries between others and us.
And that was the only consolation was then found.
SELECTED POEMS IN PROSE BOOK
Women are going in mourning because I hate brought death to your bosom, Negao to conceive children while men do not erase the world's war!.
Negao to give birth to the man who tomorrow will kill the man the son of thy sister, the woman to give birth to another man to kill your brother!
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They howled the ships and docks in the dark torrential agony of thousands of men who wanted to run away, defeated.
The ship reached daring to save them.
But many walk and walk defeat crying with thirst and hunger!
No coins, sinmano friend that gives them comfort "
As a sudden avalanche inmensísimo the war ended.
Peace collapsed.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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