Rafael Dieste facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Rafael Dieste
Rafael Dieste.
Born	1899 Rianxo
Died	1981 (aged 81–82) Santiago de Compostela
Occupation	Poet, philosopher, short-story writer, and dramatist
Language	Galician and Spanish
Nationality	Spanish
Subject	Aesthics
Notable works	Nuevo retablo de las maravillas

Rafael Dieste (Rianxo, 1899–Santiago de Compostela, 1981) was a Galician poet, philosopher, short-story writer, and dramatist writing mostly in Galician language, but also in Spanish language. He began to write with the encouragement of another Galician poet, Manuel Antonio, wrote for the theatre and wrote widely on aesthics. His stories have been compared to the other-world approach of the graphic art of M. C. Escher.

His nephew was the Uruguayan structural architect Eladio Dieste, whose approach to architecture may have been in sympathy with his uncle's poetry.

Selected works

• Nuevo retablo de las maravillas (1937; The New Marvelous Puppet Show)
• Viaje, duelo y perdición: tragedia, humorada y comedia. 1979
• Viaje y fin de Frontán
• A fiestra baldeira, 1927-1958
• Dos arquivos do trasno, 1926

See also

In Spanish: Rafael Dieste para niños