there appear new old papers and no one knows where to put
few months ago, Manuel Alvarez RNE Machado spoke of the hundreds of papers written by Manuel and Antonio Machado, and which seek accommodation. Today, the nephew of the poets, with their interpretations of documents encoded the past twelve years, reveals the plot of a play. It also features letters, sketches, film footage, etc..
Monday, March 7, 2011
How Good Are Reactive Lenses?
appears hidden file of
P. Machado Corroto / M. SERRANO
This is part of the treasure they were the heirs of Antonio and Manuel Machado and a half years ago, during one of the recovery work of the manuscripts of the writers by the family. "We saw that 60% were written by Antonio and 40% by Manuel. It is a prose play completely new," says this newspaper's great-nephew of the brothers, Manuel Alvarez Machado.
"60% of the work was written by Antonio Manuel and 40%," says his family
The text appearing among a cluster of more than 3,000 documents, plus poems, articles and letters. Is the material that remained in Madrid after the Civil War began on 18 July 1936. Manuel and Antonio had left the city in July and November of that year, respectively. The two had planned to return, but when the war ended, everything had changed. Antonio died in the French town of Collioure, in February 1939, Manuel was asked to collect material from the house of his brother, then in Madrid street General Arrando and take it to yours, in Churruca, near the Municipal Library, where he had worked for the Republic. After the death of Manuel, in 1947, and the only brother who remained in Spain, Francisco, all the material passed to the other descendants. 
memory Rescue Work recovery and digitization of Machadian began 12 years ago. However, it was the play that caused the greatest impact on the family. "Nobody knew anything, and we assume that wrote it between the two by 1934 or 1935. It has no title, but we call it its protagonist, Adriana Lecouvreur, "says Alvarez Machado. Actually, it was quite common for two brothers titled his plays with the names of their players as Juan de Manara , Countess of Benamejí and The premium Fernanda .
Among the documents there are poems, articles and letters
Adriana Lecouvreur, just published the editorial Alupe , is a work of police intrigue and a tribute to the theater with a large dose of social criticism. The main character is an actress who existed and was the first figure of the Comedie Francaise in the eighteenth century. Friend of the philosopher Voltaire, his sad end in 1730 by dysentery motivated and in 1850 the playwright Eugène Scribe compose a work dedicated to it, introducing the cause of death as poisoning. In 1902 the story was so well known that Francesco Cilea mounted an opera with this argument. The Machado brothers, however, their mark in the tragic story of the young actress. Among the differences, Lecouvreur not the daughter of a poor family who achieved stardom, but a noble to repudiate his father to devote himself to the theater and that many chances just broke. Not die from poisoning, but is involved in a plot in which, playing vaudeville, the plot and thriller, displayed bandits and prostitutes the sole purpose of killing the actress. The playwrights also introduced a jealous princess as the main instigator of the crime. At the end I was a English tragicomedy of manners, who drinks of the same instincts as his other drama, known La Lola is going to ports.
"They always were more interested in popular culture that the university club," says Manuel Alvarez. In fact, the theater reached quite resonate with the public and the two writers remained friends with actresses of the era known as the great interpreter Margarita Xirgu, and playwrights such as Jacinto Benavente.
"Manuel criticized the Franco whenever he could, "said his great-nephew
The political face of Manuel
This work was mixed with other papers that include items that Manuel wrote for the press of the Franco regime. According to his great-nephew says Manuel Alvarez, are pages in which his uncle had annotations to expressions that propaganda had added to his writings. "When you read these pages you realize that crossed out whole sentences, not censorship, but for the opposite. Are expressions like so you have to applaud the English Falange. " There are many top Spain 'and Viva Falange' crossed, "says Manuel Alvarez.The only no corrections text belongs to 1946. Manuel managed to shake off the censorship in an article entitled The fifth not kill. "It says clearly: You can die for an idea, but not kill it." I insisted that Fascism and the Falange had used violence and had failed so miserably. Puts them head over heels, "says Alvarez .
institutions have turned their backs to the file of the Machado
Despite these items, the image of Manuel Machado has suffered "a controversy, with which it had to fight Antonio because his position was always quite clear," he tells his great-nephew. However, according to him, Manuel Machado attempted to flee on several occasions, "but he was caught and other writers as [José María] Pemán warned him not to try again, because it could bring serious consequences. My opinion is that he stayed in Spain and criticized the system always he could. " Among the documents belonging to the family also contained many letters that were sent between siblings and between the rest of the family and friends. However, still remain under lock and key. There is only one available was written by Antonio to his father in 1893, when he was 17. It is the first written document that is owned by the author of Campos de Castilla .
Antonio Machado Alvarez had left in 1892 to Puerto Rico in search of work. His son, who then had "a peculiar letter, small and great, nothing and nothing pretty homogenous," says his great-nephew, wrote a letter in which he talked about the education of their siblings. It was still the voice of a teenager.
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| Manuel and Antonio Machado, 1929 |
institutional disinterest
Despite these more than 3,000 documents from the Machado brothers, Manuel Alvarez believes that the figure of his illustrious family has gone through a period of disinterest. "And it seems there are things that you want to ignore. I have a video of Antonio in the conference of January 14, 1937 of the Unified Socialist Youth. There appears to Santiago Carrillo and The Passion, and raised his right fist. Because Antonio was more to the left of the traditional parties of the left, "laments his family. As also surprised that neither the Ministry of Culture and the City of Seville and the Andalusian show their willingness to file Machadian.The yet unpublished material, said Manuel Machado Alvarez, will be published soon. Even if no publisher is interested, you may hang it directly on the Internet.
The classic two-bedroom
TheatreAmong the material the brothers stopped in Madrid at the beginning of the Civil War include the manuscripts of unpublished work, 'Adriana Lecouvreur', but also other texts written in the handwriting as' The oleanders' work he had been premiered in 1928. Another manuscript is the drama 'The man who died in Madrid' by Manuel Machado (1941). In addition, three manuscripts of the brothers made versions of classic plays of Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca. Poetry
have also been documented many poems. Many of them were published and publicly known, but among the working material, there are notes and verses of some of the best known poems both refused to publish in due course. For example, we found many worksheets' Juan de Mairena ", by Antonio Machado. Articles
Mainly known pages of Manuel Machado on articles he wrote for the press Franco. They are struck through and written expressions on the sidelines where Manuel insists it was the regime's propaganda he wrote statements such as' top Spain 'or' Viva Falange. " Letters
The letters between the brothers, family and friends have not been released for want of heirs. However, it is known that there is a letter Anthony wrote at age 17 when his father went to Puerto Rico in 1892. Studies
Another document are eleven pages of a paper on 'Don Quixote'. There is enough material for the study of Machado. Therefore, according to family members at first did not receive much interest to the legacy as they were thought to work items.
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The Machado brothers picture is taken from the file posted on the blog Abel Martín. Magazine studies of Antonio Machado.
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