Pablo De La Fuente

PAUL DE LA FUENTE

(1906-1976)

"We have been ripped from our lives

by violence, then we have not

to find calm.?

Pablo de la Fuente.

EDITOR'S FIRST VOICE IN EXILE

The novelist Segovia Pablo de la Fuente is considered as the first editor of the exile, since the Embassy of Chile in Madrid in which he took refuge at the end of the war, he edited the literary magazine and newspaper Moon Comet. The collection of the latter was totally lost, having been burned by the group of editors when it was considered imminent Franco's police intervention, but could save the magazine Luna.

"An exceptional case is the literary journal that was published in a single copy in the Embassy of Chile in Madrid, Pablo de la Fuente wrote Manuel Andújar, in 1939-1940, the group of refugees that we were there. Weekly books were essays, critical readings, supplement poetry, fiction, and so on., With full color cover illustration due to Santiago as Ontañón. Typed on paper with a beard, with wide margins, had a beautiful presentation and represented one of the methods to maintain morale in the year and a half day closure on our embassy. Lezama contributed Antonio, Antonio Aparicio, Aurelio Romeo and Julio, Jose Campos, Santiago Ontañón and I, who directed it. These unique, richly bound in leather, in three or four volumes, for the attention of who was then Minister of Chile in Spain, Germain Vergara, who made custodian of the magazines, I think they are now deposited in the National Library in Santiago of Chile?. After several efforts, Manuel Andújar found out that the magazine was deposited-four bound volumes, the only existing copy in the safe-Central Library of the University of Chile.

Moon magazine is an invaluable document for the history of Spanish exile. The group editor of Luna, was baptized at the beginning as "Republic of Letters? and then used the name "Noctambulandia?. Edited thirty deliveries from 26-27th November 1939 to 16-17th of June 1940.

Pablo de la Fuente was born in Segovia in 1906. After the war he lived in Chile, fudamentalmente dedicated to journalism. It was, with his wife, Mina Chilean Yañez, a founder of the famous and iconic coffee Miraflores, mythical meeting place of the Spanish exiles in Chile. He worked in the prestigious journal of the Spanish exile the Spains, which was released for the first time in the city of Mexico, November 29, 1946, founded by Jose Ramon Arana Aragon and Andalusia Manuel Andújar. De la Fuente then moved to Rome, where he worked until his retirement as an officer of the FAO. He died in Perugia (Italy) in 1976.

The first novel of Paul de la Fuente, The man only appears during the war, and is set in Paris, is a heartfelt story of loneliness and seclusion. On borrowed land (1944), is his first novel in exile, and framed in the sea voyage to American soil, is an evocation of Spain in the tragic years of war. His first fictional book itself is useless efforts (1949), in which it provides for an evangelical pastor. Shortly after writing this long bitter novel of the activities of a group of guerrillas in the area in the years immediately astursantanderina the end of the war, which won first prize in the novels of the Alliance of Intellectuals from Chile in 1949 and was published in 1953. After a volume of short stories, Mr. four other people (1954), published Farewell (1966), and later his best novel The Return (1969), which is a very interesting topic, that of the return from exile, issue recently addressed by the writers of exile as the interior, both cases of Arturo Barea, with broken root among the first, and Daniel Sueiro with These are your brothers, among the latter, are exceptional.

And the novelist Segovia said, "Then I realized that light, those hours, those broken trees, the silence, had broken the growing strength of the die life and saw a landscape that gave the measure of eternity my adolescence?.

Francisco Arias Solis

There was never a good war or a peace bad.

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