José Luis Giménez-Frontín (1943 – 21 December 2008) was a Spanish writer and critic.
Biography From a family with Aragonese and La Mancha roots, he was born in Barcelona, although he always considered himself to be from La Mancha. He studied Law and, after a brief period as an assistant professor, joined the publishing house Kairós, owned by Salvador Pániker, as director of publications. There he published authors from the 1960s counterculture and controversial texts by Terenci Moix, as well as The Eight Names of Picasso by Rafael Alberti, the first book by the Cádiz-born author to appear in Spain after 1939. His poetic work is that of an independent. There is social awareness, participation in the fight against the dictatorship, the demand for a new way of understanding freedom and a final and growing spiritual concern, which did not ignore collective misfortunes. He was married to Pilar Brea . He had a son, Daniel, from his first marriage to Maria-Luisa Feliu and three grandchildren, Max, Léo and Oscar.
Works
Poetry La Sagrada Familia y otros poemas, B., Lumen, 1972. Amor Omnia y otros poemas, B., Ambito, 1976. Las voces de Laye, M., Hiperión, 1981. (Premio Ciudad de Barcelona) El largo adiós, B., Taifa, 1985. Que no muera ese instante, B., Lumen, 1993. Astrolabio (Antología 1972-1988). 1999. El ensayo del organista. 1999 Zona Cero. 2003 La ruta de Occitania. Poesía reunida (1972-2006), Igitur, 2006. Requiem de las esferas. 2006 Tres elegías, La Torre degli Arabeschi, 2007.
Memoirs Costa Brava, 1976. Woodstock Road en julio. Notas y diario (1996). Los años contados (2008).
Narrative Un día de campo. 1974 El idiota enamorado. 1982 El carro del heno. 1987 Justos y benéficos. 1988 Señorear la tierra. 1991. La otra casa. 1997 Cordelia. 2000
Essays Movimientos literarios de vanguardia. 1974 6 ensayos heterodoxos. 1976 El Surrealismo. 1978 Camilo José Cela. Texto y contexto. 1985 Teatre-Museu Dalí. versión íntegra. 1994, 2000 Visiones del Quijote, "De la pedagogía al signo". 2005.
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