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Claudio Rodríguez Fer
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| Born | Claudio Rodríguez Fernández 6 April 1956 Lugo, Galicia, Spain |
| Spouse | Carmen Blanco |
Claudio Rodríguez Fernández (born in Lugo, Spain, in 1956), also known as Claudio Rodríguez Fer, is a well-known writer from Galicia, Spain. He has written many books, including poetry, stories, plays, and essays. He writes mainly in the Galician language and also writes about modern literature in Spanish.
Claudio Rodríguez Fer has taught at several universities. These include the City University of New York, the University Paris Est Marne-La Vallèe, and the University of Southern Brittany. He also taught at the Université Haute Bretagne in Rennes, France. There, he received a special award called Doctor Honoris Causa.
He is currently the Director of the José Ángel Valente Chair of Poetry and Aesthetic. This is at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He also leads the Moenia magazine there. With Carmen Blanco, he helps run the magazine Unión Libre. Cadernos de vida e culturas. Claudio Rodríguez Fer has shared his work by publishing, speaking, and reading in many places. These include countries in Europe, America, and Africa.
His collected poems are in a book called Amores e clamores (which means 'Love and Cries'). His collected stories are in Contos e descontos ('Stories and Not').
Contents
Exploring His Poetry
Claudio Rodríguez Fer has organized his poems into different themes.
Love and Feelings
Some of his poems focus on love and feelings. These are found in books like ... (1990). This collection includes earlier works such as Poemas de amor sen morte ('Poems of Love Without Death', 1979). Other books in this theme are Tigres de ternura ('Tender Tigers', 1981) and Historia da lúa ('Moon Story', 1984). He also wrote A boca violeta ('Violet Mouth', 1987) and Cebra ('Zebra', 1988).
Movies and Music
He has a collection of poems about movies called Cinepoemas ('Filmpoems', 1983). He also has poems about music in A muller sinfonía (Cancioneiro vital) (2018).
History and Memory
Claudio Rodríguez Fer has a group of poems about history and memory. This is called the Memory Trilogy. It includes Lugo Blues (1987), A loita continúa ('The Struggle Continues', 2004), and Ámote vermella ('I Love You Red', 2009).
Travel and Journeys
He also writes poems about travel and being a nomad. These include Extrema Europa (1996) and A unha muller desconocida ('To an Unknown Woman', 1997). Other books in this group are Viaxes a ti ('Trips to You', 2006) and Unha tempada no paraíso ('A Stay in Paradise', 2010).
His Critical Writings
Claudio Rodríguez Fer has also written many books about literature. These are called critical works.
Galician Literature
He has written about Galician literature in books like Poesía galega ('Galician Poetry', 1989) and Arte Literaria (1991). He also explored A literatura galega durante a guerra civil ('Galician Literature During the Civil War', 1994).
Literary Studies
His other critical works include Acometida atlántica ('Atlantic Attack', 1996) and Guía de investigación literaria (1998). He has written many books and edited works about the writer Ánxel Fole and the poet José Ángel Valente. He has also written about other famous writers from Galicia like Castelao and Cunqueiro. He has also studied non-Galician writers such as Dostoevsky, Machado, Borges, Neruda, and Cernuda.
Translated Works
Claudio Rodríguez Fer's works have been translated into English. Some of these translations include "Beyond and other poems" and "Tender Tigers". His work has also appeared in collections like "Contemporary Galician Poets".
Poetry
- Poemas de amor sen morte (1979)
- Tigres de ternura (1981), Tender Tigers (2012)
- Cinepoemas (1983)
- Historia da lúa (1984)
- A boca violeta (1987)
- Lugo blues (1987)
- ... (1990)
- Cebra (1991)
- A muller ... (1992)
- Extrema Europa (1996)
- A unha muller descoñecida (1997)
- Rastros de vida e poesía (2000)
- Moito máis que mil anos (2000)
- A vida. Gravados sobre corpo (2002)
- A loita continúa (2004)
- Viaxes a ti (2004), Voyages à toi (2008)
- Ámote vermella (2009)
- Unha tempada no paraíso (2010), Uma temporada no paraíso (2019)
- Amores e clamores (Poesía reunida) (2011)
- Terra extrema de radiación amorosa (2011)
- O cuarto bretón / La pièce bretonne (2014)
- Revolución rosaliana en Nova York / Rosalía's Revolution in New York (2014)
- Icebergs (Micropoemas reunidos) (2015)
- Ansia das alas / L'ansia di avere le ali (2015)
- Amores sen morte / Deathless Loves (2015)
- A cabeleira (Poema en 35 idiomas) (2015)
- A cabeleira (Poema en 60 idiomas) (2016)
- Os amores profundos / Les amours profonds (2016)
- Anarquista o nada (Poemas de la memoria libertaria) (2016)
- A cabeleira multilingüe (Poema en 65 idiomas) (2017)
- Pai meu (Amén, camarada) (Poema en 8 idiomas) (2017), 11 (2019), 16 (2020)
- Limiares sen límites / Πύλες απειράριθμες (2017)
- A muller sinfonía (Cancioneiro vital) 2018)
- Corpoética (catálogo de exposición) 2018)
- Diálogos imposibles / Dialogues impossibles (2018)
- Criptografías (2018)
- Máis alá do bosque / Dincolo de pădure (2018)
- Beleza ou barbarie / Bellesa o barbàrie (2019)
- A viaxe vermella (María Casares) (Poema en 11 idiomas) (2021)
- ADN do infinito (2021), DNA do infinito (2024)
- Nova York, Novos Poemas / New York, New Poems (2022)
- A cabeleira (Poema en 70 idiomas) (2023)
Prose
- Meta-relatos (1988)
- A muller loba (1993)
- Belas e bestas (2002)
- O muiñeiro misterioso (2005)
- A bela mestra (2005)
- Os paraísos ... (2010)
- Contos e descontos (Narrativa completa) (2011)
Essay
- A Galicia misteriosa de Ánxel Fole (1981)
- Antonio Machado e Galicia (1989)
- Poesía galega (1989)
- Arte literaria (1991)
- José Ángel Valente (1992)
- Comentarios de textos contemporáneos (1992)
- Comentarios de textos populares e de masas (1994)
- A literatura galega durante a guerra civil (1994)
- Material Valente (1994)
- Acometida atlántica. Por un comparatismo integral (1996)
- Ánxel Fole. Vida e obra (1997)
- O mundo lucense de Ánxel Fole (1997)
- Ánxel Fole. Unha fotobiografía (1997)
- Guía de investigación literaria (1998)
- Borges dende o labirinto galego (2008)
- Valente: el fulgor y las tinieblas (2008)
- Meus amores celtas (2010)
- Valente vital (Galicia, Madrid, Oxford) (2012)
- Borges y todo (Escepticismo y otros laberintos) (2013, 2023)
- Valente vital (Ginebra, Saboya, París) (2014)
- Valente vital (Magreb, Israel, Almería) (2017)
- Valente infinito (Libertad creativa y conexiones interculturales) (2018)
- Valente epistolar (Correspondencia de José Ángel Valente con sus amistades) (2022)
- Santiago Marcos, poeta topo contra el fascismo (2023)
- Poetas concatenados: Cavafis, Cernuda, Valente y Gamoneda (2024)
See also
In Spanish: Claudio Rodríguez Fer para niños
