I lived from 1903-1950. I was from Mexico, and am in the Americas category.
Born in 1903, Villaurrutia was a poet and playwright. He was the founder of the first experimental theater group in Mexico City in 1928. Xavier Villaurrutia is well known in Mexico as a dramatist, especially as the author of the play Invitación a la muerte (Invitation to Death, 1943). He worked on the Mexican literary review "Contemporaneos" from 1928 - 1931.
His poetic writing includes Reflejos (1926) and Nocturnos (1933). Villaurrutia's intense preoccupation with death permeates the poems in Nostalgia de la muerte (1938) and Decima muerte [tenth death] (1941); it is also the subject of his play Invitación a la muerte (1941). His most notable theatrical works are the short dramatic pieces, Autos profanos, included in Poesía y teatro completos (1953).
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His poetic writing includes Reflejos (1926) and Nocturnos (1933). Villaurrutia's intense preoccupation with death permeates the poems in Nostalgia de la muerte (1938) and Decima muerte [tenth death] (1941); it is also the subject of his play Invitación a la muerte (1941). His most notable theatrical works are the short dramatic pieces, Autos profanos, included in Poesía y teatro completos (1953).
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My poetry
- In the middle of a silence deserted as a street before a crime
not even breathing so that nothing will disturb my dying33 lines, 1 comment - Love is an anguish, a question,
a luminous doubt suspended;40 lines, 1 comment - You might say the streets flow sweetly through the night.
The lights are dim so the secret will be kept,63 lines
